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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Always Kiss Me Sign

« on: January 28, 2013, 02:45:27 PM »

Looks like you're moving right along.

Great software, Vectric is, I'm looking forward to the upgrade coming soon.

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Always Kiss Me Sign

« on: January 28, 2013, 02:30:36 PM »

Hi, John,

To do longer jobs than a table can handle, I make a series of dowel pin holes down both sides of the job, that match a series of dowel pins in the spoilboard. That way you can break up the job in smaller jobs. Set your piece up on the first set of pins, then run the first program. Next, slide the job down onto the next set of pins and run the second program, etc.

Now obviously this is easier with some CAD/CAM programs as opposed to others (I use Vectrics VCarve Pro), but once you get the idea of how to do it, it becomes easier to implement as well.

Hope that helps,
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Always Kiss Me Sign

« on: January 27, 2013, 05:58:14 PM »

Emailed you my address, Terry, and thank you- 
 
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Always Kiss Me Sign

« on: January 27, 2013, 08:38:08 AM »

Hi, John,

I used the 8020, 1010 series, specifically the 1050 single slot extrusions on my table as can be found here from 8020 on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/8020-T-Slot-Aluminum-Extrusion-10-S-1050-x-48-N-/370227288701?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5633441a7d

I then used HDPE as the sacrificial board between them and love it. The bolts for the clamps are regular 1/4-20" carriage bolts with flats ground down just a little bit on each side and they slip right in the T track without rotating when clamping down a part.

I also have different sub-sacrificial boards that I use when I need to cut through the material. Much cheaper and "modular" this way, at least for the way I do things, but obviously everyone has their own way of doing things.

You can see a bit more on how installed it here:

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,12334.50.html

Hope that helps,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I can only see 2 decimal places on feedrate window

« on: January 25, 2013, 09:46:59 AM »

Indeed, sorry I missed that particular screen 

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New Wizard Trial download link

« on: January 24, 2013, 06:06:43 PM »

lol, it's just that you're so fast, my friend- 

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New Wizard Trial download link

« on: January 24, 2013, 04:52:46 PM »

Thanks for posting this, Brian, been watching the Yahoo group and Terry has been asking all my questions and making all my comments for me   

Thanks,
Dave

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LazyTurn / Re: Dxf and Lazy turn import

« on: January 23, 2013, 03:23:32 PM »

Excellent, good for you- 

Dave

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LazyTurn / Re: Dxf and Lazy turn import

« on: January 23, 2013, 11:07:49 AM »

It is possible, I guess, unfortunately I'm not sure. Hopefully someone else that is using 64 bit Win 7 will chime in.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I can only see 2 decimal places on feedrate window

« on: January 22, 2013, 07:20:51 PM »

That worked ok for you?

You're very welcome-
Dave