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Old Fri 17 April 2009, 18:13
Robert1958
Just call me: Rob
 
Utah
United States of America
New member - Utah, U.S.

Hello everyone,
I have been reading and studying the Mech Mate for the past month or so. I forget when I joined in. I have had alot of experence with CNC tooling. I have been in sheet metal work for the past 30 years, and have been operating CNC plasmas since 1993 and CNC waterjets for almost 3 years. I was very impressed with the quality of the Mech Mate design and shop drawings. Particularly with the way the Mech Mate can be adapted for different applications besides routers.
I plan on building a 48" X 120" Mech Mate. But with a different change to the design. I want to build a rotating 360 degree (CNC operated if possible) head into the Z axis so that I can use the machine similar to a knife blade for vinyl cutting, but attach various sized small air driven belt sanders to make sanding geometric designs in metal sheets for architectural sheet metal work.
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Old Fri 17 April 2009, 20:40
jhiggins7
Just call me: John #26
 
Hebron, Ohio
United States of America
Rob,

Welcome to the Forum. Good luck on your build. Your rich CNC experience should help a bunch. That forth axis sounds interesting.

One small thing, MechMate is one word...just has a middle capital. It doesn't make much difference now, but when you get done with your build and are ready to put on your Logo's...

Regards,
John
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Old Fri 17 April 2009, 22:20
Gerald D
Just call me: Gerald (retired)
 
Cape Town
South Africa
Hi Rob, welcome!

Sounds like your experience will bring a lot to this group. The rotating head will be interesting. Did you know that Mach3 has a facility to rotate a head tangential to the direction of the xy cut? (will align a knife blade for example). Most guys just use a castor knife for vinyl cutting.
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Old Sat 18 April 2009, 20:17
Robert1958
Just call me: Rob
 
Utah
United States of America
Thank you for the welcome. And thank you Gerald for the information on the
Mach3 software. I was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction for the CADCAM software I need to run my soon to be built MechMate.
Since I work for a steel fabrication company getting metal will not be a problem. We also have a laser at my workplace, so I will be nesting the DXF files later this week, and get them lasered and fabricated.
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Old Sat 18 April 2009, 23:54
Kobus_Joubert
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Riversdale Western Cape
South Africa
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Welcome Rob. I would suggest you look at the Vectric Cad/Cam software. I found them the easiest to master. I would like to get the Aspire software, but for pure hobby like mine at this stage the price is just a bit high
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Old Sun 19 April 2009, 07:14
Richards
Just call me: Mike
 
South Jordan, UT
United States of America
Hi Rob,

It's good to know that someone else from Utah is on the forum. Please call anytime, (801) 254-3900.

-Mike Richards
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