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Foamie plans by Depron size?

Discussion in 'General Talk Forum' started by fireworks, Jun 9, 2011.

  1. fireworks

    fireworks New Member

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    New to this foamie world and I'm finding tons of plans but I'm struggling with the plans because I'm not sure what the approach is to go from plan to foam. I was planning on using 13x39 or 27x39 as they seem to be very common sizes and the shipping is reasonable.

    Are any plans sorted by depron size? Am I stuck rejigging the plans to fit the foam? LOL
     
  2. Chuck

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    I just saw this post. It has been around awhile. More often than not the plans you see are designed to fit blue Fan Fold Foam. If you can manage anything in sketchup you can re=arrange or re=size the plans for the size foam you want to use. Sometimes the parts can be jiggled around and can be squeezed onto the smaller sizes of foam and then again there are times when you would need to create an additional sheet to get them all on. You did not say if you are using a phlatprinter. There are many, many more folks on this forum who are vastly more qualified than I to help you out.

    Chuck
    ...somewhere in Indiana...
     
  3. 7up

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    Hi, most plans here are laid out (nested) for 1/4" (6mm) foam, on a 22" x 42" template to take advantage of a full 24" x 48" sheet of FFF (fan fold foam). You will need to setup your custom size safe cutting area in the SketchuCam parameters (first icon on the SketchuCam toolbar), re-nest the parts in the new safe cutting area(s) and re-generate the gcode.

    A plans size can be determined by reading the first few lines in the gcode file (filename.cnc), which can be opened and read by any text editor like notepad.

    Hope this helps.

    Chuck, I musta been typing while you were posting. Good answer. :doubleup:
     
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    7up...ur answer was better. I hope this guy did not get discouraged waiting for a reply.

    Chuck
     
  5. fireworks

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    Still here! :)

    Hmm. Okay. How about outside of the phlatprinter universe? Do any sites list plans by depron size? Most people don't have a CNC machine so they are doing this by hand from paper templates.

     
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    If you are working from paper templates, the easiest way would be to cut out the paper templates and lay out the parts on your depron sheet for best fit.

    Alternatively, re-setting the safe area size in SU would allow you to move and rotate the parts until they fit.

    Most of the plans I have seen on RCGroups, etc are not even formatted for Blue Cor. They are just set for a size which allows all the parts on one page.
     
  7. fireworks

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    I do want to use a machine to do the cutting, It's the 'redo' of the plans that I'm trying to avoid. It looks like the context for the majority of plans is printing of templates, which means that the tiled plans are for A4 or letter. The non-tiled plans are just whatever size fits.

    Is there some way to take the full plans and run them through something that can be configured for material size that will split the plans automagically into the configured size onto as many 'sheets' as necessary to avoid parts being split amongst sheets?

     
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    Sorry to say and regardless of what size the plan is, the parts will have to be re-nested to your desired size. Once you learn just the basics of SU, you'll be able to re-position a plan faster than you can type these questions.
     

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