At some point this year’s going to do a campervan conversion. One possible approach would be to design on Fusion and then cut parts on a big CNC machine.
Would cutting multiple larger parts from full sheets of 12/15/18mm ply be something that would be well within the capacity of our big CNC router, or would it be pushing it a bit?
Nope, exactly what it’s meant for!
I forget what the tolerance of the machine is, I think it’s out by 1-2mm over the full length of the bed, but that should be fine for doing what you’re looking at.
Probably not much use to you for your specific use-case, but I know folks who’ve made this stuff before and it’s worked out well for them… https://playatech.com/
It is designed more for a festival than a campervan! (But interesting nonetheless…)
Right! Better start getting inducted then!
Love this! Not totally ot because I’m thinking along the lines of removable units that will need to be stored somewhere.
Yes, well in spec. What is tricky on a large sheet is to get the z depth consistent.
Say you want to make cuts consistently just half the depth say 9mm into the 18mm sheet for hidden joints. This goes beyond the tolerance Max pointed out. We need to investigate how to fix it but we had an issue before the holidays
Sounds like the sort of thing one could work around?
Absolutely. Cutting all the way through a piece of ply is really easy. If you make a joint like in the first linked picture, the depth of the rebate might not line up exactly with what you’d expect.
you could do something similar to this pretty easily on the big CNC if you get the tolerances right, as you’d only be cutting all the way through the sheet. Keep in mind internal angles can’t meet at a point, youd have to chisel that out or oversize it to account for the radius of the bit.