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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Did you use filletexpert?
Also, you can fillet before the pattern.
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It was more because of all the
extra mounting geometry we added in.
I was using Inventor at the time, and if an equivalent Filletexpert exists, I didn't use it. I still haven't learned how to use it, but now I might look into it.
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Yeah, I'm with you on that one. My CAM software would have just done toolpaths that would have given me a fillet radius of the tool radius, but I don't want the tool to squeak in the corners when milling, so I put in all the fillets. I could pattern many of them, but after adding all the electronics mounting locations, there were many that had to be manually put in. It takes a decent computer. And for all you who waterjet your diamond pattern baseplates, yeah, we did ours on a router. 6 hours of babysitting a machine with a spray bottle of WD-40 in-hand. In the end though, I'd say it was worth it. If done well, it's a really nice piece, and makes it a joy to weld and wire.
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Yeah, we didn't want the sharp corners from the laser or the extra time it takes when the machine doesn't smoothly run through the corner. The time and machine wear considerations weren't really for us so much as they were for our sponsor.
But hey, at least you have a nice big router. I can think of at least a few (hundred) uses for that.