[Noisebridge-discuss] NB Logo - Stencilfied : Plasma Cutting at Boxshop
Rachel McConnell
rachel at xtreme.com
Fri Jan 28 20:34:25 UTC 2011
Saw this the other day in the hall just outside the door. It looks awesome!
Rachel
Corey McGuire wrote:
> Here's the sign.
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com
> <mailto:coreyfro at coreyfro.com>> wrote:
>
> SUCCESS! Mostly. The cut quality was perfect at first, but then
> slowly degraded. The consumables were good enough. We think the
> air compressor couldn't keep up with such a long cut at such a low
> speed. The obvious solution is to insert pauses in to the cut
> execution or maybe even in the gcode its self. Also, at certain
> points, the machine wasn't tracking perfectly. We think it's due to
> bed wiggle after rapid moves between cuts. A possible solution is a
> pause after every rapid move. Another is to possibly add another
> horizontal brace to the bed, but that is easier said than done.
>
> The CAM software I found was great but it has a bug where it outputs
> 5 lines of g-code and stops. Then the program must be quit,
> reopened, settings rechecked, parts reloaded, and the post
> processing done again. It's not so bad once it's recognised. The
> copy I have is a development version. I can try a different version
> and see if the problem is gone.
>
> Photos when I get a decent camera.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Corey McGuire
> <coreyfro at coreyfro.com <mailto:coreyfro at coreyfro.com>> wrote:
>
> Tomorrow I am vaporising metal! Here is the latest tool path
> for a plasma engraver. The colors are how the CAM software I am
> using separates layers.
>
> LAST CHANCE to say "I don't like the font".
>
> For Non-Noisebridge folk, Ray and I are blasting steel to bits
> tomorrow for various projects. We have metal, we have shapes,
> and we now have some REALLY AWESOME sheet metal CAM software
> that will, hopefully, ease everyone's minds when they convert
> ideas to metal.
>
> This software is GREAT...in theory...We'll find out more tomorrow.
>
> If this process works, we will certainly share it.
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Corey McGuire
> <coreyfro at coreyfro.com <mailto:coreyfro at coreyfro.com>> wrote:
>
> If all goes as planned, I'll have this, or something like
> it, a week from now.
>
> On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Corey McGuire
> <coreyfro at coreyfro.com <mailto:coreyfro at coreyfro.com>> wrote:
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Yeah, i needed to fit the image under the 80k attachment
> limit. The
> > original image is svg, so no problems in the path.
> >
> > On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Rachel McConnell
> <rachel at xtreme.com <mailto:rachel at xtreme.com>> wrote:
> >> I think these look great. Looking forward to seeing the
> finished sign!
> >>
> >> On the inlined stencil (that was attached to this
> message) there may be
> >> missing lines? On the bottom of the circuit segment, on
> each side of
> >> the bump. May just be a display issue though.
> >>
> >> Corey McGuire wrote:
> >>> Here's the path for the stencil inclined
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Corey McGuire
> <coreyfro at coreyfro.com <mailto:coreyfro at coreyfro.com>
> >>> <mailto:coreyfro at coreyfro.com
> <mailto:coreyfro at coreyfro.com>>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This bounced for size, here's a smaller version.
> This is for a HUGE
> >>> F'N METAL SIGN.
> >>>
> >>> I am inviting criticism.
> >>>
> >>> This is using the eurostile stencil font which is
> bolder and heavier
> >>> than the eurostile bold font. I think some of the
> other fonts may
> >>> match better but may not necessarily look or work
> better (because
> >>> robust stencil bridges are important for plasma
> cutting.)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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