Matt Barinholtz
01-14-2008, 10:15 PM
Really enjoying this forum - thanks to the countless posts that have brought me up to "speed" in the last couple of years...
Doing a lot of paper cutting - I job out the work to a faraway friend, and can't always get an "air cut" job time quote from an emailed file in time for a customer.
Would like to get a count of linear inches of vectors in a file, so I can plug in to rough estimates. Not raster engraving - only cutting.
I know that curves cut slower than straight lines, and more nodes = longer file time. There are few patterns, so estimating a subset of "parts" and extrapolating the run time from those is not possible...
I know my feeds and speeds - it would be great if there was a "vector tally" and "job timer" out there. Anyone know of something that might work?
Thanks!
Doing a lot of paper cutting - I job out the work to a faraway friend, and can't always get an "air cut" job time quote from an emailed file in time for a customer.
Would like to get a count of linear inches of vectors in a file, so I can plug in to rough estimates. Not raster engraving - only cutting.
I know that curves cut slower than straight lines, and more nodes = longer file time. There are few patterns, so estimating a subset of "parts" and extrapolating the run time from those is not possible...
I know my feeds and speeds - it would be great if there was a "vector tally" and "job timer" out there. Anyone know of something that might work?
Thanks!