I have a need to cut small rectangular strips out of blue tempered steel sheet with a material thickness of 0.635 mm. The strips are 2.67mm wide, and 30 mm long, and I’d like the two long sides and one end to be as even as possible, while that last short end doesn’t need to be all that even.
I’m waiting for the person at my maker space who knows how to run the Wazer here to give me instructions on how to use it, and in the mean time I’m reading the manual.
I used to run the 15x15" CNC machine at work, using QCad to draw 2D drawings and cutting out, ultimately, thousands and thousands of small parts, from thin sheet brass and plywood. So I’m very familiar with running drawings through a CAM program (I used SheetCAM) to get G-code, and dealing with paths and offsets and different cutting tools and their tolerances and cutting characteristics.
I’d be interested in any helpful techniques anyone would like to pass along to me for cutting sheet steel and sheet brass on the Wazer.
Right at the moment I’m wondering how best to cut the little bits of steel out of the parent material – I’m going to start with the one end just not getting cut at all by the Wazer, to make sure I don’t get any popups, and experiment using a small rotary metal cutoff wheel to see if that will do the trick.