I was able to buy that years ago, here I think it's called solid core. It's like 5/8" solid pine glued together then a thin sheet of ply glued to each side to make it 3/4". It was very stable.

We call it blockboard or shutterboard, some call it shutterply.

tried 2.5d
 

Hi Folks - tried the 2.5d stuff and here is what we have

in the images you can see that due ti difference in the height setting of the two tools the part got screwed up - anyways it was my first and a try out -

tomorrow will try again - this time i will let the tool fall to zero - I want to have a auto tool zero setup - and have things wired up too - but I am just not confident on playing with mach.


I have a question though - if power is lost during the the cut - how to get back to the actual point where the cut was happenning?

is it documented anywhere? its time I read the mach manual much thoroughly.

thats it folks

RGDS
Irfan

Irfan,
I remember there was a discussion regarding this matter "if power is lost during the cut" but i can't remember where is it now , I think you need proximity switch to do that as per this post "Programmable Relay to Watch Dog the Limit/Home sequence"

Very Nice work Irfan :)... I really love to see great cuts by your Mechmate.. and Where are my grapes???

yup man thats in Q

nice cuts - u mus be joking - or just being cruel on me :D

btw while cutting I lost my laser cross hair lens :( and could not find it as I had already cleared the dust out!

RGDS
IRfan

Success
 

Finally - this took a total of 3 hrs!

and come out beautiful

RGDS
Irfan

Amazing!

Is that a porous MDF or a foam? What is overall size/depth? Did you run mainly x-direction and then step over a small y increment? Etc. Etc.! :D

Awesome work Irfan. masha-allah
Congratulations.

Congratulations Irfan, Nice work.
Thinking of changing router, did you find any noise difference between router and spindle ?

Beautiful!!!!!!

Thank you all for the nice words!

Sharma - a spindle is a big improvement over a router! the 2+hrs the spindle was running in the shop no one outside knew there was something goin on in the shop. Since I was very tired - I just went to sleep - :D during those 2 hrs.

btw- the MM did make a lot of rattling sound - funny that for rapid change of directions it makes sort of funny sounds.

G' that is MDF - the max depth was .47 inch and the cut started out in the center and moved to the periphery - used a 3mm ball nose for the final finish and a 8mm end mill for the rough material removal. the speed was set to 4000mm/min @ 1000 mm/s/s

RGDS
IRfan

Irfan,

Very nice job.

How about some more details. What size is the piece? What bits did you use?

I am looking for a lotus flower to cut in 2D. I have tried searching but I can't find anything that I like. Since it is a favorite for your country, do you have any thing that is nice. Side view.

Thanks

The size is 15x15 inch - the bits as mentioned in my previous post - the file was available for free download on the artcam forum.

lotus in 2d? nope -

Traceable images of lotus flowers

Gerald,

Thanks, they will work.

Nils' - do share what you do with the lotus - its interesting - never thought about it till now!

RGDS
IRfan

Problem posted here

http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...5703#post25703

Irfan,

I have a friend that would like me to cut a large relief lotus for the front of their house.

well - posting a SOS
 

I am not able to figure out what is the problem!

I looked and cleared out all grounding and noise issues, put new grubs on the motor pulleys - had earlier taken care of all the other gearbox grubs - flats - indents on the shafts - interchanged gecko's - interchanged motors

hmm now I think I will recheck all the bolts of the machine

if any of u have any ideas kindly let me know!

RGDS
IRfan

See Cutting out_of_round circles - loose V-rollers on Z-slide for a copy of this post and the solution.

Ok - sorry but after a week of searching - I am so so embarrassed to ask - where is the location of the mechmate logo ?

Irfan,

You are going to be banned for not knowing the location..... only joking...... It is tough some times to find stuff. I know....

http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=856

In addition, all the .dxf drawings for the laser cutting have the logo in the title block.

I need my serial 33
 

Hi Folks - I took another detour - instead of getting the stickers I just machined a sign plate for my machine!

Irfan, the father of doing everything the long way round . . . . .

Well Done! :D

Want to tell us why you selected #33 and not the #28 that would have been next? :confused:

Actually G' when the Mechmate revolution started - I was there and really wanted to be number 3 - but NOW some how I wanted to at least be near to the number 3 so 3 and 3, yes it does sounds stupid - but I like to have it as 33, and sound good too...

AH thats a long way ans still learning :D

BTW I destroyed 3 carbide bits today :( one was a 3mm single flute with a cut lenth of 30mm and another 2 were 2mm ones - all carbide and that hurts OUCH!

. . . . on #33? That is an omen! :eek:

What went wrong with the bits? Feeding too fast?

G' I had that stupid auto estop triggered and then I started the spindle manually with a m03s15000 command. then pressed the green button and that made that thing go in a tizzy and the bit broke - this was the 3mm one -

another 2 mm went down due to wrong depth, and another went down bcos I had not given tabs to one of the internal profile cut and the mdf jumped out and there was a collision between the two.

RGDS
IRfan

Congrats Irfan,!# 33