........ they say necessity is the mother of new ideas..... I'm sure all you smart guys and gals have been doing this for years, but the other day I had some large pieces to cut out of 1/2" plate with various indexed holes and other mounting holes that needed to drilled or punched... because I needed them to be more precise than just a plasma cut hole.. So I drew it up in my drawing program and then I was like.... "Now how am I gonna get those holes transfered from my screen to that sheet"
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The first one, I stupidly snapped my torch to the center of that hole and got down there with a little pencil an tried to draw a little "X" where i thought it was... That wasn't close enough, and plus.... I hated it..
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The next one I just snapped my torch to the center of the hole, cranked my torch down to 20 AMPS, and simply fired my torch for about a fraction of a second... on my plasmaCAM I just tapped my "TEST" button and It left a perfect little dimple not unlike a center punch mark right in the center of where I needed to drill that hole...
I marked all the holes with the torch, cut my piece out... punched 'em (or in your case you could drill them).... everything was within a couple thousandths...
Maybe someone can use this... Thanks for the site guys......
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