Very cool! The longer you make it along the edge the more accurate things will be, I am thinking 2 ft should work nicely.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Robert Atkins <[email protected]>wrote: > I had in mind something like this. You'll have to excuse me as my > photography skills are only slightly better than my 3D modelling skills > (which are totally nonexistent.) Imagine the pice of cardboard I hold in my > hand here is roughly the size of the piece of cardboard I'm holding in my > hand—maybe a little bigger, the inside edges will need to be slightly more > than 2" to cut 2" polyiso board. Also imagine the blade is around double > the size of the one I'm actually using in the picture, whatever the size > snap-off blade you'd usually use to cut polyiso board would be. > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M-ojwkORdw0/U17E5qbZajI/AAAAAAAAALI/B-jOCZyqWN0/s1600/hexayurt_panel_cutter.jpeg> > Also imagine there are two slots in the right-angle, one to set the blade > to 30º and one to 60º. All you do is print one of these in your 3D printer, > insert a blade, then pull it down the edge of your panel (as I'm > illustrating on the edge of the table in the last photo there, don't tell > the landlord.) > > You've just cut a perfectly beveled edge with almost no effort and no > tools aside from a simple 3D-printed part and the blade you were going to > use anyway. > > Can anyone who knows what they're doing model this and throw it up on > Thingverse? Extra points for taking account of the non-90º angle at the > point of the blade where it's seated and getting the correctly angled slots > for doing 30º and 60º cuts into 1", 1.5" and 2.0" board. > > Cheers, Robert. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
