Thomas McFarland wrote:
I¢m new to Maslow forums, and I am planning to back the 4.1. I¢m wondering
what¢s the minimum anchor point setup one can use. I read that the machine
performs calibration loops to a certain size. Can I anchor the belts much
closer in? What are the minimum anchor point distances?What if I wanted to set this up on a 40 x 40-inch or 40 x 48-inch table and
run small jobs in the middle? I know that Maslow is designed for large-format
cutting, but I just want to understand what¢s the lower limit.
There is not a lot of experience with non-standard sizes, but it should work.
take a look at my frame cutting area calculator and play around with it
http://lang.hm/maslow/maslow4_frame.html
you are best off if you can stay in the green area, as you go outside it (either
into red or white areas) some of the belts will effectively be a bit shorter
than the maslow thinks they are, the further out of the green area you go, the
more error in the belt length you will get.
As you go to really small frames, the angle of the belt from the arm to the
anchors will start to be more of a problem, so if you do a small frame, then you
should raise the anchors. I developed this anchor to support a small frame (I
printed a set, but haven’t gotten around to setting it up)
What the calibration is doing is trying to figure out exactly where the anchors
are. It then saves those positions in the maslow.yaml file. So after you get a
good calibration, save a copy of the file and when you use the maslow on that
frame again, you can upload that file rather than doing a new calibration.
David Lang