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Hands-on learning
I’ve known Julio Pierre for ten years, and had the chance to visit with him at sign trade shows through that time. Julio works for MultiCam as an application specialist. He does demonstrations of the various machines which MultiCam builds. Through the last ten years Julio has answered my countless questions as I sought to learn more about MultiCam CNC machines
How this Black Panther Clawed its Way through Precision Board HDU
We came across this great article in the May issue of Signs of the Times magazine from Mike Bethune of Bethune Signs. He talked about using Precision Board to create a dimensional sign for a Florida high school. When a storm destroyed the sign at the entrance to...
Another name plaque
With the arrival of a guest in our shop tomorrow it was time to create a name plaque. Julio wants to learn how we do our finishing and there’s no better way than doing it hands on! In order to demonstrate our techniques we needed a second name plaque as well, so Grant (my soon to be son-in-law) is getting a name plaque as well. Both plaques are to be identical save for the name. I started by building the vectors for the plaque components I then selected the plaque outline and created a flat relief
Dimensional samples
One of the most striking thing anyone will notice as they walk into our shop and studio is the many dimensional samples hanging on the walls. There are more than one hundred and fifty in all (so far). It’s obvious that we have invested a great deal of time and effort to create them. Why would we make such an effort? There are many answers to this question
Dynamo
As I thought about what my ‘MARVELOUS MACHINE’ would do I decided the steam engine would power an electric generator which would in turn power the next device. With a little research I discovered they were called a DYNAMO when they were invented. On further research I found a photo of one I liked. I did a sketch to visualize how it would fit on a heavy duty bracket and have a gear to drive it. Then it was time to guild the routing files
Airfoils: You Are Doing it Wrong
To be fair, I was at least doing it wrong-ish for many years, or at least, not as right as I could be. Allow me to explain – and yes, I’m dusting off this blog after many years of inactivity. I figured I would get things going again by going back to the very beginning, and pass along some of my updated thinking as it pertains to drawing airfoils in NURBS. In case you haven’t read it, here is my original post on drawing airfoils in NURBS.
Laser Engraving and Precision Board HDU
We've been getting a lot of questions lately about whether or not Precision Board HDU can be laser engraved. It absolutely can! We decided to take a closer look at laser cutters in general and how they interact with our HDU material. Our good friend Jim Dawson from...
Gearing up for fun
We’ve made plenty of projects with gears through the years but this is the first time they will actually move and interact. That meant they had to be accurate without any fudging. A friend sent me a link for a simple gear making program a while back and using it made it easy to create the DXF files for the gears. I made five different sized gears all with the same sized teeth
Almost done
It’s a bit hard to believe but we are at last nearing the end of the first phase of the NEB’s fun World project. We have seven more posts to assemble and sculpt to finish this stage of the project. Through the last months we’ve designed hundreds of CNC files. We’ve cut up more than a hundred sheets of plywood, tons of sheet steel and many sheets of Precision Board