Shaper Tools BenchPilot

Shaper Tools BenchPilot

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2025 PREORDER: Please note, this product is currently on preorder and is expected to ship out in late September 2025.

PLEASE NOTE: This product is an add-on for the Shaper Tool's Origin and the Shaper Tools Workstation. Please make sure you either have access to, or will have access to these products before making your purchase.

Highlights:

Go Hands Free. Stay Hands On.

Tired of driving Origin around? BenchPilot enables automated, hands-free cutting for Origin (Gen1 and Gen2) so you can focus on other tasks at hand. Clip Origin into BenchPilot and let it drive Origin from point A to point B, while Origin continues to handle the small precision movements. Think of it like autopilot for Origin. 

Dimensioned and sized to fit perfectly with Shaper Workstation, BenchPilot creates a gantry-like system with horizontal and vertical milling capabilities – flexible for cutting joinery, inlays, intricate engravings, or profiles. It can also be mounted without Workstation and fit directly to your bench. It’s great for batch work or simply tedious and time-consuming jobs. Best of all, it doesn’t require complicated software, g-code, or any other type of CNC programming to operate.   

Features:

Clip in one minute, Unclip the next

• With BenchPilot, Origin is the only CNC machine that can be instantly converted from a benchtop gantry system to a fully portable handheld CNC the next minute.

Go Horizontal. Go Vertical.

• With Workstation’s vertical Clamping Face, BenchPilot is capable of cutting “on end,” an operation most CNC machines don’t support. And, using the Shelf Upgrade Kit, it’s easy to profile large parts, horizontally. 

Dead Simple

• If you know how to use Origin, you'll know how to run BenchPilot. Once you've imported your project or made a design with Origin's on-tool design capabilities, simply clip Origin into BenchPilot and click "Pilot." That's it. 
  
• • Design directly on tool
  • Begin cutting in minutes
  • Interrupt a cut if needed
  • Resume cutting easily

Toolpath Pocketing

• When BenchPilot approaches a pocket to clear out, it will automatically determine the best path to remove material efficiently.

Cut Selection

• If your design has multiple features and shapes, you can select individual paths for BenchPilot to cut, or simply cut all at once.

Technical Specifications:

• Max. Height: 176mm
• Width without E-Stop: 848mm
• Width: 955mm
• Depth: 568mm
• Assembled Weight: 12.85kg

Special Notes or Considerations:

Looking to get even more out of your BenchPilot? Check out the Shelf Upgrade Kit here.