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[mike hide]

thanks for pointing this out , typically with carbides the shank dia is the same as the cutting diameter , but i will add the extra info so there isn t any confusion
shank diameter is already marked for each hss endmill , the skank dia on the hss isn't necessarily the same as the cutting dia. so check the info provided to be on the safe side
also thanks for the compliment , weve been busting our butts to find decent tools at a decent price to add to the site , so far i'm quite happy with the stuff , i'm beginning to look into higher end tooling as well , obviously the price will be up a fair bit more but it will add to the variety and give the customers a better chance to find exactly what they are looking for

Line 4 should that be SHANK or was your mind elswhere ?

[mike hide]

any Ramones fans
sure i know this is dating me but anyhow legends are legends , its pretty shiney because the first thick layer of clearcoat was applyed 5 minutes ago ,

I use laquer frequently, in particular final coats I use gloss as it has no addatives and consequently gives a harder finish. To bring the high sheen down I use a product called "wool wax" it is applied with 4 zeros steel wool and water then take a dry rag to clean the surface and dry it off .the product is made by behlen. It will give your projects a soft luster which I find attractive, you might give it a try.

[vladicapn]

Hi all,
I am from Serbia, I just try CR8tracer and I love it.
Only think that is not good is, you cant save file as a dxf, but eps can.
After that I open the file in illustrator ans export as a dxf.Acad resize and explode...
sheet cam for machining.

[dertsap]

Line 4 should that be SHANK or was your mind elswhere ?

LOL , oops !
ya my mind was obviously somewhere else but no , it wasnt in the gutter

[dertsap]

I use laquer frequently, in particular final coats I use gloss as it has no addatives and consequently gives a harder finish. To bring the high sheen down I use a product called "wool wax" it is applied with 4 zeros steel wool and water then take a dry rag to clean the surface and dry it off .the product is made by behlen. It will give your projects a soft luster which I find attractive, you might give it a try.

thanks ,i'll keep this in mind for future projects

the ramones pic didn't come out as well as i had hoped , some features didn t come out as good as they should have , but i figured after all that cutting it was worth salvaging

[Soundcop]

I am looking some dxf files with diving motive
Double Cylinders , a diver
anything that relate to diving

BR.
Soundcop
Denmark

[tradesman]

looking gor a DXF file of a 1967 Charger thanks in advance for any help I can clean up the DXF file Don't have software to export a Picture of one into a DXF file .

[Jamf2]

ive finally taken some time to try one of the engraving bits we sell and do some more artwork , i used a 20 deg bit with a .015 step over i am more than happy with the way the cutter performs ,i'll be playing more tommorrow

What material are you using?

[Jamf2]

I am cutting 2" thick Styrofoam, does anyone have suggestions for speed and feed?

[dertsap]

What material are you using?

its just mdf that ive been cutting out

[myxpykalix]

I used inkscape to do this.

I'm just getting started trying to figure out how to do all this stuff
so what route can a person take to convert something like this in to a .dfx

[myxpykalix]

I used inkscape to do this.

I just looked at the jpeg image of the dxf and the jpg looks like crap but the dxf looks ok. I should have sized it smaller.

[teamtexas]

Anyone have a 50's model chevy truck dxf? I'm trying to make some sun visors for a friends rebuild project.

Dan

[msn_jrd]

I used inkscape to do this.

thanks did you have to clean it up any or did inkscape trace it that good.
I down loaded it but i haven't been able to get it to save as a usable dxf been deleting the original and stuff im using mastercam to open it tried saving it as an .eps witch is supported by mastercam and gives me a message conversion failed and wont open it does look like it saves every thing good as a .pdf any one know of a free .pdf to .dxf converter or why its not working for me.

[landdesign]

Anyone have a 50's model chevy truck dxf? I'm trying to make some sun visors for a friends rebuild project.

Dan

ok dan try this one. I have a few pics I havnt vectorized yet if this doesnt work

Erik

[teamtexas]

Landdesign, thanks a ton it's perfect!

Dan

[teamtexas]

Does anyone know what program I may use to turn some PTN files into DXF's? I picked a few free files up that are marketed for the compucarve cnc machines. I attached one for anyone who want to try.

Dan

[wattmetal]

Trying to run this file on plasma cutter and when the cut path gets about 1/2 done, it stops and gives a "bad segment" error. Then we have to shut down pc and plasma table. Can you look at this file and see what needs to be cleaned up?

This file is part of a purchased CD from RedPup productions with other Farm and Tractor dxf files. Other files worked fine, not sure why this one does not.

Any help will be most appreciative!
thank YOU!

[ericandmollie]

Hey Wattmetal,

I did not see too much wrong with the DXF, except that there were a lot of splines, which is one constant line that arcs and curves. The best way is to clean it up using arcs and lines. This process also makes you post process program a lot smaller. Splines use millions of points on a line, which in turn creates millions of lines, which in turn creates millions of lines in your program (one for each point). Arcs and lines use only one line of programming.

I hope this updated DXF works, Let us know if you have any more problems!

Eric

[wattmetal]

Thanks! I will try to run this later today. Hopefully,it will work. I did notice that your file is 98.7 KB, whereas my file was 160.3KB - so maybe alot cleaner file to run.

Again, THANKS!