Steve Paul
12-29-2010, 2:39 PM
I have a 45W Hellix machine and have a project I need to vector cut. The project is an ore loading building for HO scale model railroading. The building will be made from various thin pieces of plywood glued together using tab and hole construction. The mini building will house a live ore loading device to fill hopper cars. After spending many hours studing on the forum, I have actually been able to bring drawings made in SolidWorks: saved as a PDF file imported into CorelDRAW. I changed the line weight to hairline so as to be able to vector cut.
See picture for part. The bulkheads will be .062" 3ply baltic birch plywood. This particular part has many holes that when cut out will mimic the steel guider work inside the building. When I originally brought the file into CorelDRAW I looked at the cut order. It appeared to not cut in any particular order. Since I am going to hold the plywood down with screws threw the vector grid (wood is not perfictly flat), I ordered the holdown areas to be cut at the end of the file. I will mist the surfaces before cutting.
The info I need is speed, power, and pulses for these thin pieces. For the .062" my guess is speed = 30, power 80, and pulses around 300. I will set up a test drawing to confirm and adjust. I am lost on the .032" settings. Thanks in advance,
Steve Paul
See picture for part. The bulkheads will be .062" 3ply baltic birch plywood. This particular part has many holes that when cut out will mimic the steel guider work inside the building. When I originally brought the file into CorelDRAW I looked at the cut order. It appeared to not cut in any particular order. Since I am going to hold the plywood down with screws threw the vector grid (wood is not perfictly flat), I ordered the holdown areas to be cut at the end of the file. I will mist the surfaces before cutting.
The info I need is speed, power, and pulses for these thin pieces. For the .062" my guess is speed = 30, power 80, and pulses around 300. I will set up a test drawing to confirm and adjust. I am lost on the .032" settings. Thanks in advance,
Steve Paul