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Scott,

I'm glad to hear somebody's giving those a try. :) That was my first complete project after getting checked out on the ShopBot at a local makerspace. A bit aggressive for a first project...

As one of the attendees at Maker Faire, "THANK YOU" for helping at their booth. It was a very popular booth every time I went by...and a very good source of info, answers, ideas, etc.

As I turned...

Thank you for sharing the photos and progress reports. I've made a half dozen or so Windsor chairs using traditional methods and have pondered tackling some parts of it via CNC (especially the seat...

One of my nephews currently has a 5 yr old son and a 3 yr old daughter. They're expecting a second daughter any day now so the son has been moved into the smaller bedroom his sister used to have (so...

My handibot arrived today (a day earlier than FedEx predicted!)…figured I should set it up right away and get it to cut something…decided I'd cut the last thing it did while it was on the east coast...

I've thought about trying scaled-down projects on my Desktop with full size cut later on an Alpha but haven't tried to implement it yet. Glad to hear I'm not the only one thinking that way…gives me...

Russ,

Thanks. I normally only post bigger projects and those are fairly few and far between so I end up posting fairly rarely. This one made me smile so I figured I'd share the smile.

I...

Late last week, I was at ShopBot's headquarters for handibot training. We cut only a handful of things as most of the training covered other aspects (care and feeding of a handibot, walk-thru of...

Randy,

Thanks for the kind words!

At night, when this thing is lit and on top of a two-story house, you won't be able to see the plywood - just tons of twinkly light. Lexan could look pretty...

A few years back, a former coworker ordered plans from a website to make a big, lighted, star to use in his holiday decorations. His house ends up with thousands of lights…computer controlled to...

Cool sign and even cooler to have the students participate!

That's great news. Thank you!

As a long-time techie, it's really sad to hear that text is what causes the bloat (but almost nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to things like this). :D

Thanks for finding a solution.
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The upload limit on the Vectric forum is 1 MB for .zip files and 2 MB for dxf files. The dxf version of the sawhorses weighs in above both of those limits…

Thanks anyway. It was well worth...

I registered there and got sidetracked exploring it. Never did quite figure out which of the VCarve areas was the proper one for this.

In the mean time, Mick contacted me via email and has the...

Thanks. I've used DropBox before to move things between family members but in general, I don't like the online file sharing services and prefer to avoid them.

I'm headed to the airport soon to...

Mick,


The dxf version is 6.3MB - which exceeds the attachment limits here.

I compressed it into a .zip file and it's 1.2 MB - which still exceeds the attachment limits here.

If you send me...

Thanks for the kind words. Learned a lot from this project and now I'm working on a handful of other 'Bot projects. Each one teaches me a bit more about ShopBot'ing, VCarve'ing, etc.

Tim S.

It was cleaner to create a new thread to post the files. That made it much more likely that the copyright statement they asked for would be seen.

Anybody looking for the files can find them at: ...

This message has the tool path attached that rolls all of the prior individual tool paths into one big one. I like cutting in stages so I don't normally use all-encompassing versions like this. ...

The fine folks at Woodsmith Shop's parent company (August Home Publishing) have agreed to let me post the VCarve Pro drawing and ShopBot tool paths for my version of their stacking sawhorse project. ...

Interesting alternative version…thank you for sharing it (and for the followup note).

The PDF I gave the URL for at the beginning of this thread was based on one of Woodsmith Shop's sister...

Mick - the .dxf file is essentially a modified version of their drawing in the bottom right corner of page three (of the document pointed to in my original post). Their terms of use don't allow...

Bob,

Great suggestion! I hadn't considered pyrography but can see how it would open lots of options for texture, pattern, etc. I'll have to think a bit on that one.

I expected to be able to...

I've attached the "Before" photo as well as a picture of my first attempt at a simple sign. I admit my sign is fairly weak/trivial but if you compare it to the "Before" photo, I think you'll agree...