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flying haggis

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found this pic as part of a you tube item about cnc woodworking machines. the material cost alone must be huge
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You're not wrong! On the other hand,the thought of marking out and then cutting all those parts without a CNC router is pretty horrific.
 
It does look expensive.
There is a few ways of designing this type of thing quite quickly using 3d modelling and then a slicer software to create the slices.
I really like the effect and am going to try a few smaller ideas out possibly using mathematically derived patterns, should be fun.

Ollie
 
Isn’t the point of CNC repetition? No two pieces look the same. The programming probably took more time than doing it with a bandsaw.

That is one of the advantages of CNC work.With a half decent CAM system and correct geometry it only takes seconds to nest such an array of sheets and to determine how many sheets the project will take.With a pencil,square and rule,might we expect to mark out more than about five sheets a day?As for programming time,assuming all the entities that make up each outline are joined,it only takes a minute or so to select the shape and the tool and post process the file for each sheet.If the entities aren't joined it takes a few seconds longer.

In the "bad old days" when Gcodes were typed manually it would have been a different story.
 

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