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16th Jan 2022, 12:09 am | #21 |
Nonode
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Tintinara, South Australia, Australia
Posts: 2,324
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Re: Panel Artwork - an easy option
One type of label we use in the Mens Shed are Avery Outdoor Labels and they stand up to all sorts of abuse.
We have some now ~5 years old, been outside in the weather and look like they have just been printed. Only available in silver or white, but do take to being printed in colour with a colour laser printer (don't bother with the inkjet print version - the ink doesn't weather well). Come in sizes from an A4 to 48 labels per page. https://www.averyproducts.com.au/lab...-labels?cat=cp |
16th Jan 2022, 6:04 am | #22 | |
Tetrode
Join Date: Aug 2021
Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Posts: 79
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I'm constantly amazed at the kinds of things you can print. I started out with a cheap Chinese kit about 5 years ago that I've extensively modified since then. Most of the mods were printed using that very same printer. |
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16th Jan 2022, 4:34 pm | #23 | |
Tetrode
Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Posts: 84
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Very nice set-up, what's the biggest thing you can print, it looks like its bigger than the prusa at 25×21×21 cm (9.84"×8.3"×8.3"). Theyve just brought a bigger one with a better solution for different colours... Prusa XL is a large-scale CoreXY 3D printer with a build volume of 36×36×36 cm (14.17’’×14.17’’×14.17’’). expensive tho....https://www.prusa3d.com/product/original-prusa-xl-2/ MAybe we should start a 3D appreciation thread , and images of our sucesses. I 3d printed a very small insert for a switch for someone on this site which he said worked... |
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17th Jan 2022, 1:25 pm | #24 |
Heptode
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Posts: 541
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Re: Panel Artwork - an easy option
As I mentioned in a previous post I'm converting my mill to cnc and have reached the point where I can do some engraving tests, back around 12 months ago I built the Steve Bench inductance bridge, I would normally have printed up paper artwork for the front panel and then after giving it a few coats of varnish it would have been glued to the front panel - a reasonably quick and perfectly adequate solution, I held off on doing this deciding at the time to wait until my mill conversion was operational.
Here is a photo of a test engrave for one of the 12 position switches, done with a home made D bit cutter - the artwork was drawn up using the home non commercial version of Fusion360 - the scrap bit of test aluminium already had black paint on it and was not very flat, I could see it flexing up and down as the cutter moved, I should have searched for something better but I was keen to have a go, after engraving I went over it with a purple felt tip pen, the idea being to make the engraving stand out - however I found it hard to wipe off all of the purple using a paper towel soaked in meths. I can see that I made an error with the 0.6 and missed the zero when defining the tool path something to watch out for once I do the real thing, my mill is not that big and I'm going to have to setup for each bit of engraving one at a time rather than doing the whole panel in one go. |
17th Jan 2022, 4:26 pm | #25 | ||
Tetrode
Join Date: Aug 2021
Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Posts: 79
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Nice! Definitely looks like this has possibilities |
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