My last anchor locations were a 12 ft by 16 ft area. This turned out to be bad because I moved 22 cm the wrong way and busted a belt. Planning to shrink my anchor locations a bit to prevent this. What are the ideal anchor dimensions for working on a 4x8 sheet of material and be able to get to all areas of the 4x8 easy material accurately without being in danger of busting my belts?
Since I’m planning to cut 2 in of foam board, should I plan on having this on top of my spoil board during my calibration process? This was a suggestion because after I calibrated on top of my spoiler board only the machine would not be able to get to ready to cut status saying that I needed to recalibrate.
I’m on version 1.15. So I will leave the the foil board thickness and material thickness settings blank in the configuration area?
My last anchor locations were a 12 ft by 16 ft area. This turned out to be bad
because I moved 22 cm the wrong way and busted a belt. Planning to shrink my
anchor locations a bit to prevent this. What are the ideal anchor dimensions
for working on a 4x8 sheet of material and be able to get to all areas of the
4x8 easy material accurately without being in danger of busting my belts?
There is no one best dimension, play around with https://lang.hm/maslow/maslow4_frame.html it tells you the belt length needed so
you can tweak things to best balance things as you want (including fitting
things into your available space)
just going to 12x14 looks like it gives you an extra 25cm or so of belt. and you
can go smaller on one dimension or the other.
also, don’t be terrified of going slightly out of the green, look at the table
above the graph to see that going a couple bands out of the green makes very
little difference.
With the goal of not breaking belts I just have belt tension and belt length selected…
It is showing red tension up near the top… is this for the vertical setup?
The similator does show the whole workspace more yellowish for the tension… I don’t think I should have been able to break a new belt with just “yellow” tension?
I’ve got belt length selected but nothing really changes on the simulator when I check/uncheck it.
With the goal of not breaking belts I just have belt tension and belt length selected…
It is showing red tension up near the top… is this for the vertical setup?
yes
The similator does show the whole workspace more yellowish for the tension… I don’t think I should have been able to break a new belt with just “yellow” tension?
I’ve got belt length selected but nothing really changes on the simulator when I check/uncheck it.
it’s unlikely to show problems with belt length unless you get to really large
frames, your 12x16’ frame is right at the edge of that.
There’s also the question of exactly how much belt length is allowed. The
machine ships with 14.5’ (~4400mm) of belt, but we’ve found that when you unwind
enough, the tension of the belt around the spool drops off and the belt pulls
out of the spool. but we don’t have a good handle on where that is, and therefor
how much belt should be left
So once I get my new belt installed… should I be calibrating on top of
spoilboard plus my material of 2 inches of foam?
you don’t need to do that, just make sure that the Z offsets are correct when
you calibrate. Then you can use the spoilboard and workpiece thickness values
when you cut to correct to the conditions at that point.
