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hi, mike. i talked to josh yesterday about buying or fabbing a water table for our TM2. he said there are water table plans on the TM2 page, but I wasn't able to find them. any chance you could...

mdf is good spoiler board. you can run wood screws directly into if for clamping if you can't get onto edges. also might want to look at some t-slot sets. you can get them in lots of sizes shapes.

NICE! scary fast and ingenious looking drive design.

for something like an iphone case, i think you'd want something more precise and more rigid like a small mill.

maybe dirty or sticky AHC slide? try jogging it up and down manually while blowing it down. then try increasing the sensor torque. i blow down the rails, racks, and slides between sheets. gets...

Does anyone use Adobe Illustrator and TMcad to make stuff? I'm having a heck of a time trying to get TMcad to open the dxf files I export from AI.

Here's my process in case I'm not doing...

We use our TM2 primarily for plasma cutting, but occasionally for routing. I want to build a water table, but I haven't figured out a slick way to do it so that it doesn't interfere with routing. ...

thanks for those pointers. i can get it to work with enough screwing around on each part, but i'm trying to make this a solid process for other people with less patience. my most recent step...

I have my male toolpaths with the lead-ins. Now I want to change the starting point of each cut. But with the lead-ins added, I am only able select the lead-in or lead-out as the start point. Is...

nevermind, i got it. i was trying to apply the lead-in to "online" which i suppose doesn't allow the software to figure out which side of the line to insert the lead-in. selecting "male" did the...

in TMcad, how do i make a lead-in? i can't get it to work by applying a tool path template, so i open "edit tool path" and apply it there, and again, it doesn't want to take.

this is it. is there anything we can do to get around this beyond spacing the pc and the welder? we even tried - mostly jokingly - to cover the welder with aluminum foil.

we tediously grounded...

Our torch-cam: YouTube - Figure Engineering CNC Plasma Demo

I have an odd condition. We recently built a Torchmate 2. On the back 2ft of the table where there is no usable cutting area we made into a welding table. Whenever we TIG weld and initiate the...

CM said he could view the chart, so here's the actual excel file, which is probably more useful anyway.

I initially found generating the g-code in TMcad to be confusing, but it's really pretty slick so long as you know the procedure. The nice things about generating the code in TMcad, particularly if...

Is that a setting in TMcad? I did notice that when I import a .dxf directly to TM without using TMcad, there are no M commands... Deleting M50 and M51 has no affect in that section of code I...

I'm having a somewhat similar but different problem, and it's only with one spot in one code. The g-code was generated in TMcad. When I execute the program, the first 4 parts cut properly. Then,...

we recently bought a 5x10 tm2 bolt-together. i expect you'll be happy with the whole experience.

here's the chart i made... i forget where the data came from, actually... it gets us close to begin, but like mike said, these are only baselines to get you in the ballpark. use the "observed"...

good stuff. thanks for the quick reply!

Two things I haven't been able to figure out are:

1) When I import my manually nested *dfx parts into Torchmate, how can I choose in which direction it cuts? It appears to default to CCW, but I'm...

we experienced something similar when we first set up our machine. big difference between the suggested voltage and the observed, the climb and dive into the material thing, all of that. we tried...

I tried the nesting with no rotation, and pretty consistently I run into a problem where BobNest still tries to stagger the parts (see images 1 and 2). The reason it is important to block nest in...

interesting... what you showed is what i want. i was thinking maybe bobnest would try staggering the parts, but maybe that wouldn't make sense. thanks!!

Is there such a thing? By "block nesting" I mean that BobNest will recognize an imported part almost like a bitmap, so that a triangle would nested like a rectangle. In other words, if my part is a...

can i do that without using the CHANGE drop down on the menu bar?

i've only tried bobcad recently, and i've just opened the saved files in TM3. did you find out which to use?

excellent instructions you sent me. thanks!

In BobNest, the ability to set different bridges for x and y. I need this for nesting parts on perforated metals.

Say we're cutting a diamond pattern where the short of the diamond is .5" and...