Gary Campbell
10-12-2011, 05:19 PM
Maybe not, but it looks like it. This could be a show and tell item, but since the design and material were not mine, I didnt post there.
A ShopBotter and now friend and customer from Toledo, Rick Wyatt brought up 4 sheets of 3/4" cast acrylic sheet that he was having problems cutting on his PRT. We found that there was a section of the file that, when changing from one area of cutting to another, restarted a fresh cut, and the max depth of that pass was about 5/8". Needless to say, pushing a 1/2" ballnose full width that deep into plexi is beyond what the PRT could handle.
We will send the file into Vectric to see if this is a settings or software glitch. Finished product will be an edgelit acrylic ships wheel just under 8' in diameter. 2 of these were cut with a tiled toolpath using Aspire 3 into 4 sheets of material. I was able to cut each sheet in about 4 hours at 6ips, XY and 5 Z. Made a lot of snow as early in the day humidity was low and I didnt run the dust collector.
Photos below show the blowing and drifting snow and an earlier smaller version of the product, both lit and unlit.
A ShopBotter and now friend and customer from Toledo, Rick Wyatt brought up 4 sheets of 3/4" cast acrylic sheet that he was having problems cutting on his PRT. We found that there was a section of the file that, when changing from one area of cutting to another, restarted a fresh cut, and the max depth of that pass was about 5/8". Needless to say, pushing a 1/2" ballnose full width that deep into plexi is beyond what the PRT could handle.
We will send the file into Vectric to see if this is a settings or software glitch. Finished product will be an edgelit acrylic ships wheel just under 8' in diameter. 2 of these were cut with a tiled toolpath using Aspire 3 into 4 sheets of material. I was able to cut each sheet in about 4 hours at 6ips, XY and 5 Z. Made a lot of snow as early in the day humidity was low and I didnt run the dust collector.
Photos below show the blowing and drifting snow and an earlier smaller version of the product, both lit and unlit.