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by Paul Ford
Thu, Jul 14 2005, 2:31PM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: DXF files
Replies: 2
Views: 5173

Hi Bill,
Thanks very much for that, I will see how I get on with this. It would be good to learn.Thank you for your time explaining this to me.
Paul.
by Paul Ford
Thu, Jul 14 2005, 2:28AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: DXF files
Replies: 2
Views: 5173

DXF files

Hi all, I have had a 3D helicopter DXf file emailed me from someone who wants one made. He designed it in either turbo or auto cad (cant remember which one). Sad part is I dont know the first thing about DXF files, I tried to nest the job by going through load DXF file at rolling nest but it came up...
by Paul Ford
Thu, Jul 14 2005, 2:22AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: 4.60 update
Replies: 6
Views: 7895

Hi Glenn, I used the rotate function once and it worked great! I was very very happy that it was all made so easy. What I did (or at least what I think I did) is clicked rotate 180 deg button and then scanned the barcode of the offcut I wanted to use. Then I nested the job and it nested facing the o...
by Paul Ford
Mon, Jul 04 2005, 8:40PM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Rolling Nest
Replies: 1
Views: 3974

Rolling Nest

Hi guys, The last couple of jobs I have run on our router have been doing something a little different. It has been cutting the smallest parts first before anything else and it is GREAT! However... it doesnt do this all of the time and I was wondering if there i anything that can be done to change t...
by Paul Ford
Thu, Jun 30 2005, 2:48PM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Double pass on thick material
Replies: 3
Views: 6618

Hi all,
I thought that was what I was going to have to do. Looks like ill be cutting this job out in the next couple of days so I will see how it goes.
Thanks for your replies
by Paul Ford
Thu, Jun 30 2005, 2:29PM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Piggy Back drill bank
Replies: 5
Views: 8382

Hi Jason,
Could you please tae a look at my machine.ini file aswell? Mine is still drilling 1 hole at a time. Some times it uses the whole bank but not very often.
Thanks
by Paul Ford
Mon, Jun 27 2005, 2:46PM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Double pass on thick material
Replies: 3
Views: 6618

Double pass on thick material

Hi all, I have a job coming up in the next couple of days which has 30mm thick end panels. I was going to cut this with our 12mm cutter but I was just wondering if there is a way to do a double pass on all parts and still be able to onion skin the smaller parts. Any advise on this would be very much...
by Paul Ford
Wed, May 25 2005, 4:04PM
Forum: Customer Images
Topic: testing
Replies: 18
Views: 127952

WOW!! That looks awesome!!!! want a job? lol