Finished this back in April, two years after I started this thread! I wasn't cutting full time - it just felt like it. Slow, noisy work. I would go into the office and draw whilst the ShopBot cut,...
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Finished this back in April, two years after I started this thread! I wasn't cutting full time - it just felt like it. Slow, noisy work. I would go into the office and draw whilst the ShopBot cut,...
Thanks Brady.
Yes, it'll need 9 sheets at least. Good job I'm not paying.
But I see the scrap price is quite good. :D I've already got about 100lbs of swarf, and then there are offcuts. In the...
Looks like it is possible. I've now cut 18 of the 48 pieces. I'm machining the "slot" (approx 1.25 hours each), engraving some identity info on the inside of the slot (5mins), then profiling them...
What do you think the chances of me being able to machine the brass item shown in the attached images is? The piece is about 5' long (1500mm) and has a 4" (100mm) wide by 0.08" (2mm) deep trough...
I still haven't had time to read the website fully, but what about ShopBotters approaching the project organisers and offering their services? From what I can see the project is really about...
I haven't really read the details yet, but from what I can make out the hives were designed in Rhino and are snap together plywood kits. Potential beekeepers get the plans and give them to their...
I don't usually use meshes but I think there's a simplify mesh command in Rhino isn't there?
Epoxy? Why not?
"..............but do I need to weld all the vertices together where the objects meet?"
In my experience no. Not for a cnc router anyway. You would for 3D printing. For a ShopBot as long as there...
I forget what the terms are now, but if remember correctly if the resolution multiplier (is it?) has changed it can cause your problem. Or at least it will cause the problem if the tool is jogging...
I like it. Really like it. Did you make that stuff on the ShopBot?
John
Jeff, thanks for the detailed description. It all makes sense.
Steve, that sounds like a neat system although I don't understand it completely. Is the bit zeroing on the end of the bolt and if so...
Brad, that was an interesting thread. I wonder if instead of the adjustable bolt a block of soft aluminium could be fasted adjacent to the spoilboard. When the table is resurfaced it resurfaces the...
Steve, that all makes sense. Thanks. I think you're right - be consistant or some expensive mistakes will happen.
I've often thought the touch plate would be a good idea, not just because of the...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XteEyLYvtXA&feature=c4-overview&list=UUF0Y_ypEky7cd0DWyLFoU1w
The presenter shows how he Z-zeros on the spoilboard rather than the top of the ply and gives some reasons...
Thanks. I like that nautilus idea.
John
Thanks Jerry, Brady.
John
Are you guys not worried about breaking your 1/8" bit at too high a speed?
Brady, where can I read your article?
John
I think this is the fourth or fifth model I've done for Foster Lomas (London). They asked for some help computer modelling the roof (getting a sexier shape and then modelling the shingles [1000...
What time of day did you epoxy? Or more specifically, was the wood heating up? If you epoxy coat when the temperature of the wood is rising (at a faster rate than the air around the wood) the air...
It might have been me who mentioned doing this - I certainly have done it.
The project I'm thinking of at the moment (there might have been others) was a large 5 or 6 person corner chair. It was...
I have a folder for the drawing files and a sub-folder for the toolpaths. Toolpath names start with a number depending on where they are in the cutting sequence - 01,02,03 etc, possibly followed by...
I don't think anybody's mentioned the big problem here - wood shrinks on the tangent more than it does radially. When a log has been processed into planks the planks have some ability to bend (cup)...
Adrian, I got the impression the cnc machine lived in that container permanently and was used regularly in London where the design firm is based. A workshop isn't cheap there and I guess they could...
Basically it's a TV program about a house being built from cnc cut plywood. Not a ShopBot, but a similar size and style machine, and interestingly it was kept in a shipping container, delivered to...