custom machining plates

[BarryB]

Wow, it's been difficult to get my plates machined.  I've noticed that being a small customer, the machine shops are treating you like they are doing you a favor, rather than a regular customer.  It's been over a week and two separate shops have yet to give me a quote.  Do you guys go through this too?  Anybody feel like cutting some 1/2", 3/4" and 5mm and 6mm plates?

Barry

[GAWnCA]

Barry what do they look like?  How many?  I've got a friend who just bough a massive 3000 pound CNC Mill.  He might do it.

[BarryB]

There's 32 plates total, many are copies.  If you'd like to see, here they are as individual files.  They are fairly simple.  I can't believe it's been so hard to get quotes.

Here's a sample drawing of one of parts too:



Barry

[GAWnCA]

What program did you draw those with?

[BarryB]

I modeled all the parts in Rhino and there is an automatic 2D 4-view in the program.  I did overlays in photoshop though, forgive the gothic font.  I do a lot of gothic stuff on the side.

[GAWnCA]

Could they be converted to a DXF file and not loose he scale?

[BarryB]

Hmm, I doubt it.  I don't think dxf has a scale in it.  However, the parts I liked to are iges and have a built in scale.  I'm going to cold call a bunch of shops here, and see if I can find somebody that will cut these for me locally.

[GAWnCA]

Where are you located?

[BarryB]

I'm in Orange County, CA.  I finally found a shop to make them for me.  The price is fairly good too, yay!

[GAWnCA]

Glad to hear it!