Quote Originally Posted by mart154 View Post
The work envelope is pretty small, so I can't see doing any heavy lifting :)
Front diagonals should be designed just so a "full size" 600mm wide sheet fits in between them.

Basically, the heaviest "full size" I can see myself working on, would be maybe a 25mm-ish aluminium plate. 800x600mm of that weighs in just over 32kg, so wouldn't be much of a problem to wiggle in even if the front diagonals would be in the way...
If you have so many steel, why don't you move the supporting braces outside or think of something else.

Correct me if i am wrong, but when you design a thing from scratch there shouldn't be any compromises. Thats the whole point, yes?