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I dont know how within reach your homemade projects are going to be. I priced out 5" square, .25" steel plate with three holes in it for fun and asked for it to be laser cut or wire edm'd... The pricing was over $5k for the wire edm... Laser was $1200.
I will go back and try aluminum but steel is what I wanted.
I am SURE though that I have not paid full enough attention to material type versus machine to make it a proper choice, so perhaps all I am saying is that machine versus material is an important parameter!!!
Wow, I was actually making titanium stuff and it didn't cost that much.
Cutting 1/4" steel with a laser would require a pretty hefty laser, so I could imagine why it would be so expensive. Try changing the machining option to regular milling or even water jet.
Thanks Novigator, it looks like their sister company pad2pad, is a good find. As for the emachine software, it need work. I've been doing Autocad for years and I took a drawing exported it from Acad to .dxf, imported it into their program and it was close, and missed lines as well as changed others! A straight line became some kind of angle, it considers a "hatch" pattern (commonly used to indicate a solid) as "too many lines" , etc. I sent them both the .dwg and .dxf files to figure out. It is a good find and much appreciated. I hope the conversion and compatability problems will be easy fixes. Of course, it could very well be something basic I did, too many hours of design work and you have no brain left!
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