3D CNC Manual For CAD/CAM (Or Computer Numerical Control router) is a computer-controlled cutting machine related to the hand held router used for cutting various hard materials such as wood composites aluminium steel plastics and foams. CNC stands for computer numerical control. CNC routers can perform the tasks of many carpentry shop machines such as the panel saw the spindle moulder and the boring machine. They can also cut mortises and tenons.CAM software makes the CAD drawing/design into a code called g-code.This code the CNC machine can understand. In short CNC technology is not very complicated. It is a tool controlled by a computer. It only becomes more sophisticated when considering how the computer controls the tool. The illustration shows what a bare bones CNC machine might look like without its controller.