Are you planning to sell your solution? 'Cause, I think I wanna be in line.
If by āsellā you mean post here then yes, I will be posting for one and all. Iām hoping this week to have it in shape to post up for other PRUs who are interested to work on it as well (itās an OnShape project so other PRUs who are on OnShape Iām happy to share directly)
Awesome!!! Thatās even better! (didnāt want to beg for filesā¦)
Anything I do like this for the GF will be an open source thing (my medical stuff I am somewhat bound by my employer, but this kind of stuff is for the community). Just havenāt posted since it is a total work in progress so would just annoy everyone with version after version being posted as I iterate over the design.
Yes, and in fact a 3D printed part would likely be superior in this case, but trying to develop something that could be an early print for users to just make when they get the GF without having to find someone with a 3D printer.
Oh for sureā¦didnāt mean to say it was great in this instance to do the actual modelingā¦I said mock-up, I shouldāve said 3D sketches. At work I have Creo, but by the time it launched, I had it done in PPT.
Would you envision taking this on-and-off a lot? Otherwise, what do you think of bolting a piece of acrylic to the crumb tray, and then cutting out the square/corner/guides? This would ālockā it into place to the crumb-trayā¦but then how much can the crumb tray move around could be an issue.
The idea is those parts will lock into specific case features which will (using 4 of them) lock the crumb tray in place relative to the case as well as giving a repeatable stop on the surface.
OnShape is web based so starts virtually instantlyā¦
is not possible just to have an L shape in the corner of the unit?
Thatās more like what I was thinking, but I also thought the idea was to create a reference point, not lock the crumb tray down. Locking the crumb tray down is a task that I will try to only observe, silently.
What about a wide score/deep engrave? Or am I way overthinking this?
No, since it would interfere with the Y-axis rails, and obviously you donāt want to press up against the door.
Itās not locking it down in that way, you need to be able to place your material in repeatedly, so locking everything on the bed into a nice solid piece is best. Itās not locked down in the sense that you canāt remove/move it, but while these are in place the bed canāt move laterally and the angle brackets will be reference points.
Hmmm, OK. I might need to rethinkā¦ I am expecting a number of tasks that would require some sort of jig for placement. I was thinking that it could just be butted up inside the cutting area somewhereā¦
Thatās the goal of this too. You can either take the files and make your own jig, or you can fit your jig onto the corner brackets of this one.
For many purposes thatās fine. Aligning to the crumb tray is pretty consistent but itās not locked to the machine nor is anything indexed off of it. It could shift ever so slightly in the dimples its āfeetā rest in which can lead to slight differences in positioning from job to job. What folks like @henryhbk are looking to do is reduce the margin of error to point zero zero something. For a lot of work thatās not critical but when youāre used to CNC and 3D printing itās something you count on. For craft use thatās probably at least one and maybe two orders of magnitude more precision than is needed.
But given how easy it is to implement, why notā¦
And, I want it for craft work.
Iād definitely put on t use making cards and invites!
Thats what Iām looking to mainly focus on.
Right. But donāt want folks like @sqw thinking itās something absolutely necessary to effectively use the GF. If you get it to where itās a āfirst printā thatās gonna be great but most folks will be fine without it. I like how youāre looking to do it all on the GF and not require a 3D printer or something machined.
I , for one, greatly appreciate all the thought and time you are putting into this! This is a GREAT tool for anyone, like myself, that will be running duplicates.
Thank you so much for all of the time and effort youāve put into this to make it work correctly!
Absolutely agree, and I hope @henryhbk knows that as well! But trying to poke holes in designs is what makes them betterā¦like a collaborative effort. Though, I wonder nowā¦perhaps this isnāt the place to poke holes in otherās designs?
Iāve only been married for <5 years and Iām still trying to learn when Iām supposed to ājust listenā to her vent versus give her my advice on how to fix the problem!