Engraving Duo Plan

Working closely with Dayfold Print, we have been trying hard to achieve the best possible finish on their new Duo plan and Tri plan card stocks.

These A5 sample cards show the range off effects just by choice of colour.



Black on yellow




The process works great on block fills as well as text



A macro of the high detail border



Blue on black



A perfect surface finish despite the deap engrave



Black on blue, showing a nice embossing feature of the process





Striking yellow on black surface



The vibrancy of yellow is kept during the process



The yellow on black is one of the more attractive card stocks, and leant its self well to being laser engraved.

Each sample measures 200mm x 140mm and took little over 10 minuets to complete. Due to the engraving process, the complexity of the data shouldn't slow the process down. The finish required by Dayfold and the material properties meant that the laser had to run at less than optimum performance to vaperise the first layer of material. Power was at 100% speed running at a slower 50%.

for more information contact either myself or Chris@dayfold.com to help you realise your idea.

Prep HE have their shows up now - and spotted this lovely. Cut on our Speedy 500 makes use of one sheet of polypropoline - no waste or nothin.

Hope you can make out the above image - looks real nice :)

Kudos to

Clock make timely arrival

New range of wall clocks are hitting the lasers - based on simple arrays and lots of trimming in CAD!

Currently fabbed in card - but one day when I have some money i'll make them in actual acrylic.

Closet modeller

It's more accepted to be gay than be a geek.

Will the gingerneer hops on to Speedy 500 whilst no one is looking to create carriges for his N gage train set.

Rhino CAM

Our pre dawn of existance CAM application is about 50% good - it is very unforgving on even the most well built CAD models.

Anyway - I delved into Rhino CAM - a plug in for Rhino 4 and offer a free demo on their webiste. I fed it a file that has been causing Excalibur to stall for around 33 hours only to let us down again and again and crash. To my suprise it took about 30 seconds for Rhino CAM to spit out a tool path - i'll bee damned.

Unfortuantely without the right post processor its unusabable on our machine. Maybe I can faf with the Post output settings but who wants to do that on a sunny day?

Anyway, have a couple of images to feast your eyes on!



Horizonal roughing - tool path generated very quickly - but i'm sure there must be a way to select a more material friendly region...



Horizontal finishing if I remember correctly. pretty fine stepover of only 10% of tool - all the stages are pretty strait forward.



And lastly, the output G code.

Digital Terrain Modeling

Using Digimap and Rhino 3D, Bournemouth Chine was milled from Birch ply.



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The model is used as reference for Nathen's 3rd year BA Hons Architecture project, the rejuvination of a bridge.

Speedy 500 new honeycomb table

OK, pease can we stop moaning about the state of the bed on our speedy 500 - the new replacement has arrived!



Word of warning however - the damn thing cost £2500!! Can you believe that?! Me neither - anyone caught abusing the thing will be banned forevar!1!!1!

In all seriousness however please do look after it the last one lead a short life and there is no reason why this should either.

Peace out - ed