looks like we are getting a new toy at work
so look forward to making parts with it. plus side I get to attend training/school with my son 
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looks like we are getting a new toy at work
so look forward to making parts with it. plus side I get to attend training/school with my son
At the very least we're gonna need a new set of cartoons along this line...
@LizKat Ha... I am so going to "use" that cartoon.
What a freaking cool machine. I could only imagine some of the things you will be making with this!
What a freaking cool machine. I could only imagine some of the things you will be making with this!
boss gives me plenty of leeway, as long as I pay for the material AND ask permission is all good.
I am quite remiss in not crediting it to its creator, Randall Patrick Munroe... of xkcd.com fame.
Good to have you back, Midget.looks like we are getting a new toy at work
so look forward to making parts with it. plus side I get to attend training/school with my son
School again, well at least you can meet some Midgetinas there.
Good to have you back, Midget.
School again, well at least you can meet some Midgetinas there.
Speaking of permissions:
Maybe he can meet some, but I'd bet the ranch he may not do so.
I am told all I need to meet someone is a credit card and a profileSpeaking of permissions:
Maybe he can meet some, but I'd bet the ranch he may not do so.
oh the wife would so kill me.............
I am told all I need to meet someone is a credit card and a profile
oh the wife would so kill me.............
Yep you'd have a brand new proflie all right. Kinda like a very thin pancake.
So before you landed this opportunity, did you ever mess around with home versions of laser cutters, like Glowforge? That got referred to as a "3D printer" but it's really a laser cutter that will cut a variety of materials, although it will only engrave, not cut stuff like stone or metal. I remember that one because it got such a phenomenal crowdfunding launch off Kickstart, something close to $30M inside 30 days.
I had to watch the video. I thought it was one of those shuttles from the USS Enterprise.
I wish. I have seen a few hobby lasers at the gun shows and the things they have done
Yeah they are still pretty pricey. Eventually they'll come down. I think I paid $2400 for my 512k Mac in 1985. I paid less for a car a few times back then... but now I couldn't buy much of a car for the price of a laptop you could use to run a city...
Liz, you can't give the Midget a 3D Printer as he won't need even a credit card and a profile.
I thought I was hot with my vinyl cutter, but this might have me beat.
I thought of getting a cutter to fool around making templates for components of quilt blocks that are difficult to scale up from a printed pattern that provides only a particular finished size, e.g., something with curved units in it, or components that don't translate well to a universe that wants everything divisible by 8, not maybe 7 or 15.
Our great grandmothers just approximated when they hit those speed bumps, and still managed to create wondrous designs. But today we expect stuff to scale up easily or else we're reaching for "the template for that". I make and cut templates all the time from sheet plastics sold for the purpose but that doesn't help me with the scaling up of certain curved patterns or a polygon with an inconvenient number of sides.
Anyway out there in the marketplace already there are acrylic "templates for that" by the zillions. One must think how many of those one wishes to pay for and then catalog and keep handy in the studio.
Yah so I settled for the dirt cheap and time-honored way out, in the instance that had had me daydreaming about a cutter: put a sashing around the block to frame out the block and retain the original size of the curved design inside it. My next solution is scout around for long arm quilters who have expanded into making templates for customers and so have invested in a good acrylic cutter.
Of course now I'm pretending that by that maneuver, I have meanwhile already saved enough money to buy a laptop upgrade.