A corner marking gauge
Posted: Wed 20 Jan, 2010 9:55 pm
...... is a feature I'd like in FMD
Did some washlines today and as I was plotting the corner dots on my hand made gauge I thought - wouldn't it be nice if I could do this on the CMC.
It's not really a slow process to plot manually, but there is plenty of room for human error - and before anyone suggests that gauge that uses pins - which really is fast - forget it! If and when the pins go through the surface paper the ink/paint can and does (especially on some boards) seep under them and make a great big blob.
To make a row of 45 degree dots in FMD that you could copy, paste and rotate for each corner, would be a bit of a nightmare - far faster by hand, but if it was a feature in the FMD toolbox it would be far faster and deadly accurate.
This is how it would/could work .....
Enter outer X and Y
Select shapes (rectangle/square ...... possibly oval/whatever)?
Enter aperture X and Y
Enter concentric shapes - say six
(Somewhere along the line go to the toolbox as you may for arrays and select 'corner marking gauge')
Press 'OK
Inner aperture stays; concentric shapes disappear but dots are left at the corners
Inner aperture has blade selected, dots have embossing head selected - or possibly stylus head with a pencil.
Warraya reckon?
Did some washlines today and as I was plotting the corner dots on my hand made gauge I thought - wouldn't it be nice if I could do this on the CMC.
It's not really a slow process to plot manually, but there is plenty of room for human error - and before anyone suggests that gauge that uses pins - which really is fast - forget it! If and when the pins go through the surface paper the ink/paint can and does (especially on some boards) seep under them and make a great big blob.
To make a row of 45 degree dots in FMD that you could copy, paste and rotate for each corner, would be a bit of a nightmare - far faster by hand, but if it was a feature in the FMD toolbox it would be far faster and deadly accurate.
This is how it would/could work .....
Enter outer X and Y
Select shapes (rectangle/square ...... possibly oval/whatever)?
Enter aperture X and Y
Enter concentric shapes - say six
(Somewhere along the line go to the toolbox as you may for arrays and select 'corner marking gauge')
Press 'OK
Inner aperture stays; concentric shapes disappear but dots are left at the corners
Inner aperture has blade selected, dots have embossing head selected - or possibly stylus head with a pencil.
Warraya reckon?