Christmas reindeer puzzle

[parrotlady]

Hi again,

I thought you all might like this file.. I DID NOT draw it.. Again I believe it was from another forum, but I thought some of you might have missed it and would like it. Again, my software doesnt "like it" so it may need to be cleaned up.

Thanks
April

[parrotlady]

Also, I wondered if anyone could tell me what gauge the slits are designed for? I should probably know how to figure that out, but I dont yet

Thanks

April

[awt112]

I opened it in plasmaCAM and the slots are scalled for .5" material obviously you can scale it to whatever ya want though.

[parrotlady]

okay, so I am a bit slow with math... what would .5 translate in gauge? For example, I want to cut it out of 20g, so how would I change the slots to match that?

Thanks

April

[Metal Lee]

Hi April,

I am not so good at math but I will take a shot at it, from what i get from the conversation you have .5" slots that you want 20ga material to fit into. Well it is going to be a bit sloppy as 20ga. is <1/16". What you need to do is reduce you slots to a single line segment and cut with fine cut consumables, that should do the trick for you. I opened the file in Corel Draw and it appears to be designed to be cut from wood on a router table, the file needs to be cleaned and redesigned for plasma table use. It can be done, just takes time.
There are 862 subpaths so you will need to do some joining to cut clean as well.

[parrotlady]

Thanks so much! Maybe thats why it keeps shutting down my torchmate program?


April

[ericandmollie]

Hey April,

Here is the DXF that is scaled down to 20 gauge (.036") metal. What you would want to do is take your slot size (.51") and your sheet metal size (.036") and divide them into each other. .036 /.51=.0705 Then use your scale command in your CAD program, and scale to .0705 of the actual size of the original. Now if you want to cut this out of 16 gauge (.060") next time, then you would take the slot size of .036" and divide that into .060". (.060 / .036) which works out to 1.666. Use the scale command and grow the part by 1.666 times

Christmas Deer.DXF

[AIRFLOWKID]

ericandmollie,
Thanks for the conversion info. I think that will help a lot of us.


Tim

[parrotlady]

Thanks so much for that info. I will have to take it and absorb it all. All of that math reminds me of one of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits, called Deep Thoughts. It went something like this "Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers?
Jack Handey

That about sums it up for me

April