Outside corner radius gauges

Free Laser Designs
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Metric and Imperial Outside Corner Gauges
(not kerf corrected)

(Updated with 90deg chords, not 180deg chords for proper corner measurement capability)

radius gauge metric corner
radius gauge imperial corner

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As always, thanks for sharing.

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Good idea. Presumably to measure corners you need 90 degree holes not 180 degree holes?

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Thanks for sharing!

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I am certain this will be helpful for lots of users. Thank you.

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Thanks for the share, very useful!!

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Thanks all for pointing out that these could not actually be used for a corner measurement. I have updated the design to only take out a 90deg crescent, instead of the previous 180deg crescent.

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Thanks for notifying us of the update. I’ve saved the new one. :slight_smile:

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OK, I will be the one to ask the stupid question. What are these for?

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If you have a physical object that you are trying to model, most aspects can be fairly easily measured with calipers. However, trying to measure the diameter of a rounded off (filleted) outside corner is very difficult. With the gauges above, you simply place your corner into the recesses and see which one matches the best.

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Thanks for the explanation. Now I am enlightened.

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Thank you! this is super useful and a thoughtful thing to share.

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Great idea, thank you!

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Thank you for asking because I was going to ask if no one else had. :smiley: My brain is tired and I had no idea what this was for! hahaha

Thanks @stoli! :slight_smile: I’m sure I’m going to run into something at some point and think - ohh there is a file on the Glowforge forum to use for this! :smiley:

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Thank You, I will make one and use it. There are times in the past when it would have helped me greatly.

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Same here. I had no idea what these were for.

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