Thread: few questions.
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03-06-2012 #2
This light 16x160 stuff works ok but you have to be carefull not to over tighten the nuts else it lifts and distorts the edges. Better is the 28 x160 but it's expensive.
I made my bed using strips of 16mm Ali spaced 10mm apart giving 45mm centre spacing and even at 16mm I can make them bend when clamping stuff down so my advice is go with the thicker stuff.
Edit: Oh and £50 won't get you much of a vice.!!
V carve should cut the 2.5D toolpaths no problem but will be very hard work to draw the 3D model so suggest you use a dedicated CAD program like Solidworks,Rhino,Viacad etc to make the job much easier then import into Vcarve to creat the toolpaths.
Obviously it wil be a 2 sided cut so some indexing will be required to get perfectly back in place when flipped and tabs to hold everything in place but with a little planing nothng to difficult and something Vcarve should easily handle.
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