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Cutting really small pieces

Posted: Mon 06 Apr , 2015 15:33 pm
by mickb
Hi guys - you aint let me down yet - please don't fail me now :)


So, I have VLS with honeycomb bed and I need to cut really small acrylic parts - varying sizes 4/5/6 mm.

Trouble is I keep loosing them through the honeycomb

:delirious:

I don't want to have to keep dragging out the bed after each cut and rummaging around to try and find the parts and have tried several things with no success .... any suggestions welcome .... can you help ?

Re: Cutting really small pieces

Posted: Mon 06 Apr , 2015 15:53 pm
by Martin
Remove the honeycomb table & pack the material on 10mm blocks then set the fixture type to custom & 10mm to allow for the blocks.

Re: Cutting really small pieces

Posted: Mon 06 Apr , 2015 23:54 pm
by TDIPower
or just leave the honeycomb in place and put on blocks as Martin says, setting custom fixture to the thickness of the support blocks. I have actually managed to cut through 13mm material before by saying it was the max thickness it reports it can cut (8.9mm I think) but mounted on a custom block 4.1mm.

Pete

Re: Cutting really small pieces

Posted: Wed 08 Apr , 2015 10:40 am
by mickb
That's great thanks

I guess that 10mm is the magic distance for the beam to be dispersed and not bounce back from the engraving table?

Re: Cutting really small pieces

Posted: Wed 08 Apr , 2015 11:50 am
by Martin
You could try 3mm. It should be ok with that.