1800x800 bed or 1200x800 and cut big panels in 2 goes?

[Boyan Silyavski]

Hi,
the standard panel in EU is 2440x1250 or something similar. Thats what you can go in any big shop here in Spain and buy right away.

What will serve you better could be half 8x4 table. So you make 1300mm x1300mm working area. That will do a big sheet in 2 times. Further more you will avoid big ball screws, servo drives and all stuff associated with longer than ~1600mm machine. For the money of a small machine you will have a machine capable as a commercial 8x4 router

[jimbo_cnc]

but 1300x1300 is bigger than 1800x800 and the wrong shape!

My material comes 2800x2070 and will be sawed into smaller rectangles for me to collect and put on my cnc. The biggest shape that I need to cut is 1650x670.

I don't have the need (or room or ability) to handle anything bigger than that. I did choose 1200x800 based on it being 1/3 of a standard sheet, which is a nice size to collect from the local B&Q.