"Origami" CNC Plasma Build - folding 1200 x 600mm cut area

Rod - I'm not sure its needed or necessarily useful.  But just exploring it from a design angle.

The design I have at the moment is actually good enough to run with I think. Now I need to have another look over your's and Tomy's builds to see how  you fixed the gantry beam to the Y axis sides.  Then finish off my design for that so I can get the blanks cut up and get things processed on the CNC mill.

Cheers - J.

Bit of a question today for those with more experience in this.   I'm looking at the gantry sides and how they will connect to the beam that will support the X axis.  I think I need to change things to allow for adjustment and probable a little more ridgidity.

So here's my hacky idea.  Views, improvements and better approaches welcome!

 

Thanks - James.

CAD designs on my take of this paper sketch.  I understand this type of adjustment concept does exist on some commercial machines so I can't be too far off the mark.

Cheers - J.

Looks good James.

you could also make the side plates bigger and have a l bracket on the top also.

If you checkout my gantry I welded nuts (M12) into the x axis, then slotted the y axis end plates so I had the up down adjustment to level the x axis with the table.

Cheers James

Getting prepped for some CNC milling action on the gantry sides.

Laying out the design on the fixture palette. In the Y it's a very tight fit and having to do this to this to the mm.


Working out where the internal clamping holes will be and laying spaces to support the blank off the pallet.


Some quick and "hacky" clamps.  Even though not pretty they are very effective and quick to setup.  Plan will be to make some a bunch of nicer looking ones for future use.


The blank in all its glory ready to be chewed up into a (hopefully) working part.

Cheers - J.

Just when it was about to get interesting, you stopped !