I just went through my old posts. I had a lot of problems with Onefinity’s buildbotics controller, which could not handle the g-code (lack of computing power) and would destroy my projects.
The whole thread was recently deleted.
I do not trust Onefinity any more. They just lost a customer.
Thanks for posting the Ai5u’s link, I created a subreddit where I hope folks can discuss further.
Hey Geige,
PwnCNC told me that they think there is enough evidence that “Redline” is a subsidiary of Kirbre, Inc. (with their Onefinity CNC brand).
PwnCNC thought they had a wonderful relationship with Onefinity right up until they announced they were releasing their own spindle kit, then they wanted nothing more to do with PwnCNC. PwnCNC were even emailing with Onefinity helping to solve one of their customers machine issues the day before their black friday spindle kit announcement.
PwnCNC told me, they have sufficient evidence to show that Redline is a subsidiary of Kirbre, Inc., which means they’d been working on it for 6-12 months prior to announcing it on black friday. And by “work”, it is meant they literally copied PwnCNC’s spindle kit (brand/model vfd and even motor brand)… Every single feature, and even copied word-for-word right out of PwnCNC’s online knowledge base.
PwnCNC assumed that their unwritten agreement was that they help Onefinity’s customers with spindles and PwnCNC point people to Onefinity for machines. They wouldn’t release spindles and PwnCNC wouldn’t release a machine, that was the idea they were working from.
But with the release of Onefinity’s own spindle kit, PwnCNC were now free to release a machine which is why they announced and started working on their Dominator CNC.
You may have a look, I think it’s a pretty convincing machine.
My inner troll wants to get a Dominator CNC and a redline spindle..
Quick, punch me in the face!
Wow! I thought it was just me…lol! I’m really glad they made the purchase decision for me!
When I was researching CNC options, I looked at the Onefinity site and even though it is a “Canadian” company, all of their prices are in US dollars only. And since there is a big difference between USD and CAD, for us it looks like the price is quite reasonable…until you go to an external site to calculate the exchange rate. I asked them about it and they said it was a limitation of their web site. In 2025? Yeah, sure. Kinda gives you the feeling that they are catering to their biggest market. That was a big turnoff for me.
Sienci acknowledges that the US is their biggest market but they show prices in both currencies. And I think they’ve been fair with respect to the tariffs that their US customers may or may not have to pay.
So that, plus the fact that they are pretty much open about everything, sold me on their product.
I like the fact that Scenci said if they have added tariffs they would let you know when it gets ready to ship and offer you the option for a refund. If they do have tariffs and they aren’t too bad I will keep my purchase.
I’m not yet a Sience customer, but I am planning on being one after I complete my cross-country relocation. I recently sold a Onefinity Woodworker Elite in preparation for this move. I saw this thread, and just had to respond.
I too experienced the Onefinity dishonesty and censorship. When I first got the CNC, it had Onefinity’s clone of the Buildbotics controller (the Elite wasn’t out yet). I tried to do a Fusion 360 bore toolpath, and the machine started jerking and stuttering and generally sounded like it was going to tear itself apart. Onefinity tried to blame the issue on Fusion 360. I looked at the gcode, and it was clearly correct. When I posted about this on the Onefinity Fecebook group, they deleted the post and blocked me from posting for a couple of weeks. After that two weeks, every post I made had to be reviewed by an admin. Eventually they removed that, after I asked nicely. It was during this period that I discovered there was another Facebook group whose sole reason for existence was to provide a place for Onefinity owners to communicate without Onefinity censorship.
I read the comments above about what Onefinity did to PWNCNC. I just wanted to add that they did something similar to the Buildbotics guy. Early on, Onefinity was purchasing controllers from the Buildbotics creator. His stuff was all open source, which is a good thing for users, but in this case didn’t work out well for him. Onefinity took his work and had someone make clones at a fraction of the cost, and then they ran the Buildbotics software on them. The Buildbotics guy was reportedly furious at this breech of an informal agreement, and to this date refuses to even answer questions from Onefinity customers.
And something else I observed myself. Onefinity does not have the expertise in house to support a product like a CNC controller. There are parts of the software for that, specifically the motion planner, that are non-trivial. So any bugs that were there in the Buildbotics software when they forked it, beyond simple UI stuff, are there forever. They tried to address this by moving to Masso, but this drove the price of the product up to where it was not competitive with Sience. So now they have this Redline controller, which is most likely just a reskin of something else (gSender?).