Hey guys! Just ordered my DIY kit and steppers! I know the kit comes with a detailed equiptment list but I want to order everything at once to get going quicker! Thanks guys!


Take care and God bless,
Tomas Simatovic

 

AWESOME! Thanks so much! You guys are awesome! I cant wait to start uploading some pictures!

 

Welcome Tomas, great to have you on board, you are in for a great ride!

John

 

Hey John! I had no idea you were a phlat printer guy!!!! AWESOME! Thanks for the kind words! I look farward to sharing some stuff with you!

 

You Too Tomas, I know you are in the right place because Mark and Trish and great folks and so are all the members!! I have a second generation MKII and make all my kits with it for the xtremefoamies.com website! Great machines and well thought out So let us know if we can help and look forward to your progress so you can start selling your kits as well!
Take care
John

 

Thanks so much for the kind words! It only took one email from them and I immediatly thught".....uhhh WOW.... GREAT Customer service...This is goin on FG for sure" lol I love to spread great customer service when I see it!Haha I just went to go look at the new warehouse that my buddy is letting me share! Its big enough to have vapor nights, or doin some hovering and powered flatspins in the center! The back of the shop is big enough for maiden for sure!!! The only problem that I can see (which is very tolerable) Is that i have to fit the CAD file on 2 sheets now. I have a question for you. How do I get g-code to reccognise the 3mm to 1mm milling areas? I know it can do it, but how do I enter those parameters? THANKS GUYS!

 

Click on parameters
then enter thickness of material, it's that easy!!
use the fold or centerline tool to set depth for pockets Attached files

 

YOU.ARE.AWESOME!!!! Thanks Jnida!!!!!! I get mine in the mail this week!!!! I also got to check out the building that I'll be working in!!!!!! Ill be flying the vapor in there while Im waiting for the machine to cut LOL Thanks guys! Ill post pics soon!

God bless,
Tomas Simatovic

 

I tried it out, and I must be doing something wrong. It reccognises even the cutting areas as 2/3 depth cut... how do I get it to cut completely through on the edges, and just mill 2mm out of 3mm in the milling areas? Thanks guys!

 

here are some pics of the TAS Foamies 32" Extra 260M prototype along with the fleet I took to AMA. The blue one is the one that Ive been having cut by laser by a buddy of mine. Its the TAS 34" Eagle 580M, My all time favorite foamie! Cant wait to post cutting pics!

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Tomas, first go to the upper task bar and from window/model info , choose units. from there you change the format to decimal and either inches or metric and set your snap to .0625 for best results! Hope this helps!
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It does for sure! Thanks, just gotta figure out this dang milling technique...

 

do you have the pocketing plugin? If you do follow these simple steps to pocket your designs.
First, draw a square. Attached files

 

Next, draw a square inside your square

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Then click on the pocket plugin

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Once the pocket plugin is selected, left click inside the inner square, it will put in the pocket lines for you

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Then Select the centerline tool, when you do you will see a % number in the bottom left corner, if you are using 3mm depron and want a 2mm pocket you would put in 66 there, basically 2/3 of the depth of the material. Then hit your enter key to save the percentage.

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Then click on the lines that the pocketing tool put inside the square, it will set the depth of your cut, your done cut away!!

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POCKETING PLUG IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOT IT! WHERE DO I GET THIS AWESOME PLUG IN?!!!! YOU.ARE.AWESOME! THANKS SO MUCH!

 

toward the bottom of the page, download all the plugins and play with them.
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OK, It shows up in CAD, but It doesnt show up in plot gcode... Is it supposed to show up there?

 

That looks way easier!Thanks for the kind words by the way!My high hopes, but achievable hopes, are to get as many kits cut for the RCX show in Long Beach, CA in the end of April! Im going to try to get at least 3 of my already tested indoor foamy designs sold by then! I can't wait to play with this sucker!!!! Thanks again guys for all your generous help!



Thanks and God bless,
Tomas Simatovic

 

Phlatprinter delivery scheduled for today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :flying: :checkmail: :Connie_happy-mail: :drool: