Hi,
My husband and I are just about ready to buy a Handibot and have it shipped to Australia. His number one use is for making circuit boards, though I am sure that lots of other interesting things will be created with the Handibot.
I work with glass (fusing). Before we place the order, perhaps you could please help me with these two queries:
Vinyl stencil cutting (for sandblasting) with the drag stencil cutter: Would I be able to use this tool to cut a variety of font styles and sizes, let's say like your "Carve your Path" decal? The only video demo I could find was cutting large simple letters with rounded corners to stick on a wall.
In dedicated vinyl cutters, tangential emulation and digital servo motors are used for accuracy and precise corners in fonts smaller than 1/2". I do not expect the Handibot to fully replace a Graphtec vinyl cutter, just would like to have an idea of what is possible.
One of my main uses will be to score vertical, then horizontal lines on glass with the drag diamond tool. This forms a grid of squares. I can then "run" the scores to make lots of precisely sized square glass pieces (I do this at present by hand, though not so precise
).
Can I determine the tool path myself? Even so the final product are squares, the tool path cannot be making one square next to another square. To make clean runs (or cuts) in glass, it is necessary to have straight long lines in each direction.
Not sure if I explain this well. But if you tell me that yes, I can modify the toolpath the diamond cutter will follow (I don't have to accept what the software thinks is best), then it will work.
Many thanks for your help. Hope you can reply soon, would like to order this week.
Best regards, seachange