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About this hub
A community resource for a young field — and the public notebook of the small R&D effort behind a prototype 5-axis conformal FDM platform.
Why this site exists
Five-axis (conformal, non-planar) 3D printing is a young field with no centre. What exists is scattered: a few academic papers, machine-shop pages about 5-axis CNC, open-source projects documented in forum threads, and confident claims with no shared vocabulary behind them. This site is our attempt at the missing reference layer — guides, a technology landscape, a glossary and an open research agenda, written from the workbench and kept honest about what is proven and what is still open.
Who runs it
5axis3d.com is run by a small, independent R&D effort based in Suzhou, China. Since 2022 we have worked on the unglamorous layers of this technology: multi-axis motion control and linkage (our POCENDER / PCD3D controller, with RTCP), curved-surface slicing software, and prototype five-axis FDM machines. Along the way we have developed slicing software and customised equipment together with research institutes and universities, and built and delivered custom machines to order.
We are not a large manufacturer, and this is not a catalogue business. The platform is at prototype stage — machines are built one at a time, to order, and the design is still evolving. The About page of a hub should say that plainly, so here it is.
What we're building
Two things at once. A body of reference content that the whole field can use — including people who will never buy anything from us. And a prototype platform — machine, controller and slicer — that labs, universities and advanced makers can run real five-axis experiments on. The platform page describes it in full, including its current limits.
How the hub stays honest
The landscape is a dated snapshot and says what it leaves out. Listings are informational, never paid, and not endorsements. Where our own route is discussed, we label it as ours. Corrections are welcome and substantive contributions are credited. The full rules are on the editorial policy page.
Get involved
Contribute a correction or a missing project, propose a collaboration, or ask about a machine — everything starts on the contact page, or by email at cqq365@gmail.com.