multiple pieces of stock? - I’ve attached the photo.- Essentially I have 3 boards. 2 of them are the same length and width. The last board is slightly shorter in width. Disregard the rectangles (I was using those as reference points and I butted them up to one another in the software to replicate as if they were butted up to one another on the table. (edge to edge) the rectangles will NOT be cut out.
As you see, I have various sign sizes in each row. Each row has its own tool path for the qty of signs in said row.
It might be a dumb question but I didn’t know if this was the way to approach this kind of “batching out” system? I grew tired of only cutting a few signs on one board at a time.
I set the stock size to 31x31 (I have a shapeoko 3 XXL) and I wasnt sure if that’s the right idea as you can see when the boards are butted up to one another they are the true 31" long but they aren’t the exact height of the bed? (31") All 3 boards when married up to each other total out to 24 & 9/16"
Does that matter? I hope I’m making sense.
Is there better, more efficient way? Am I on the right path? Or am I just an idiot?
It complicates things more than just cutting each board separately — the board measurements need to be correct, the machine needs to be accurate, and one needs to set zero correctly relative to the stock.
the board mesaurements are correct. - meaning what i measured per board is inputed as such in said program and married to one another.
Machine accurate meaning,what?
zero correctly relative to the stock meaning all boards should be equal “thickni” to make sure no error occurs if using a touch probe and measuring the stock from said bottom. That’s assuming all stock isnt the same thickness…IT is.
