Tuesday 10 November 2009

Laser Cutting Issues

Today I began assembling the ground floor elevations. I noticed a problem with the laser cut acrylic windows. They are 0.4 - 0.6mm too small. The laser cutter's beam removes 0.4 - 0.5mm of material when it cuts. I will now have to experiment with a single window and using the offset tool to make the window 0.4 - 0.6mm bigger to see which one fits into the elevations.

Update!

The laser cutter takes off 0.3 and I have used the offset tool to make the windows 0.15 bigger. They now fit with a little bit of give so that they will still fit even when painted.

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