Spider files

Tonywish · Post by **Tonywish** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:51 am

Has anyone cut a spider puzzle file? I have a few and it seems I have to make the thing 5 feet tall to get the legs etc to work as the plasma cuts them so thin they don't look right. Also the slots are an issue. If someone has a decent spider file out there can you share it and what size did you make it and from what thickness material.

Tony

Post by **bob49** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:53 am

Here is one i rescaled to cut out of 36" x36" 1/8 (11 ga.) it came out great.

3D spider closed path DXF file.dxf

Tonywish · Post by **Tonywish** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:45 pm

Thanks Bob, I can hardly wait to cut it out.

Tony

Post by **sasf430** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:51 pm

Any pictures to see how it fits together?

Steve

Post by **Terry** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:58 am

Thanks looks like fun

TotalPerformance · Post by **TotalPerformance** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:05 am

How big does the spider turn out with this file?

Post by **DXF** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:03 am

Here's a link to one I posted a while back.

Dave Hanks

https://plasmaspider.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4471

tirediron · Post by **tirediron** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:57 pm

Here is a picture of the spider that I made and then added the hour glass to the body of the spider to make her a black widow.

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4955

Post by **sasf430** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:14 pm

I cut this one, and it was about 13/15 inches across when put together it seemed to work ok, but I can't figure how to assemble all of it..

Does anyone have a competed one I can look at?

Steve

Post by **maxman1** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:46 am

The request for a picture of the final product had me blasting snot this morning.... Sorry... But ran into that same issue with a 3d frog, some kind of dinasaur forget which one now, and no doubt will run into it again. Love these 3d things, uses up holes in the steel sheets used for larger cuts... I have three kids, 10-14 years old that live nearby... when I cant quite get it... I give it to them and if they figure it out... I weld it together and let them paint it, and keep it... THe oldest boy Mark, he gets to try his hand at welding one pretty soon...Works well... hmmm they have had that friggen frog now for a week my guess... scrap heap...
Buuuut they do make wood puzzles for next to penny's, And those things come with directions on assembly... Last resort order a wood one... and see if it helps.
Max

Post by **Larry83301** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:36 am

sasf430 wrote:I cut this one, and it was about 13/15 inches across when put together it seemed to work ok, but I can't figure how to assemble all of it..

Does anyone have a competed one I can look at?

Steve

A lot of these files have been on another board --- https://www.cnczone.com/forums/diy-cnc_ ... f-210.html ---
You may find a picture of the one you are looking for, OR new ones that you like.

Larry

Post by **kawika** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 5:50 pm

I just cut this as I'm sitting here and noticed that when I use an 1/8 end mill on 1/8 plastic that its cutting too much into the plastic for the legs and the rest of the parts to fit correctly.

4R8 · Post by **4R8** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:53 pm

kawika wrote:I just cut this as I'm sitting here and noticed that when I use an 1/8 end mill on 1/8 plastic that its cutting too much into the plastic for the legs and the rest of the parts to fit correctly.

Hmm, this is "plasma" spider, the "cnc plasma cutting online community"

serious note though, all files 3D files need to be checked thoroughly before cutting as different thickness material obviously needs different thickness slots.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sat May 12, 2012 2:15 am

thanks, except now I have to try and make it haha

Buzzard Gut · Post by **Buzzard Gut** » Sun May 13, 2012 12:24 pm

Here's one from Dave H. files. You do have to check the slots for the thickness of your metal and by looking at the picture it helps to put them together.

moto_0273.jpg

Rudie · Post by **Rudie** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:06 pm

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Ran this today. As it happens, this was probably the firt large format file I've run that didn't have some issue somewhere after a couple of months of tweaking, an fit turned out great, so I'm doubly happy with it...thank you!
(Still gotta weld it up)

Post by **plasmajoe** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:56 am

Cool

sc6917 · Post by **sc6917** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:21 pm

Just cut the 36" spider today, I reduced it 30% and used 10 gauge steel. Had to fix a couple flaws that showed up on sheet cam but turned out very nice. Thanks for the file

JOHNOSULLIVAN · Post by **JOHNOSULLIVAN** » Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:58 am

DOWNLOADED THE FILE ,cant get my machine to cut this any body got a mach 3 file i can use

t8017e · Post by **t8017e** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:42 pm

File worked awesome, I reduced the size to fit my table. Its a lot of parts to cut in one run so it overheated my Miller Spectrum380. Next time I think I'll cut it in two runs.

But thanks for the file,

IMG_20131221_181522[1].jpg

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p m metals · Post by **p m metals** » Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:57 pm

thanks for sharing

Lightspeed Mike · Post by **Lightspeed Mike** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:33 am

Thanks for the file.

Post by **BearFab** » Sat Jan 02, 2021 8:47 pm

Thanks for sharing

Post by **kneal** » Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:47 pm

Thanks for sharing looks like a fun project

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