GKQ
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Well not exactly today but anyway my first attempt at garden design this is one of nine panels I have designed and had cut out, ( water jet I want one ). And no the customer did not want a top band to save people from being spiked to death or suffer serious injury, I did try.
Specifications and really nerdy facts, just in case any one is interested.
Made from corten 3mm plate, 1800 x 750 mm.
We bought 4.5 sheets of 3600 x 1500 sheets of 3mm corten total spend $800 - £400 ish
All figures below are an average across the 9 panels.
It took me 3 hours to draw each panel. I drew everything free hand then imported into a graphic program then traced each part then smoothed out cut path then attached everything together for the cutting program. Very steep learning curve.
There was 42,000 points per drawing for the machine to follow the cut path.
There was over 400m of cutting per panel.
It took on average 3.5 hours to cut each panel.
The water jet used 93kwh per panel.
A lot of garnet sand which I forgot to measure at the start, oops.
Not an average but, I’m never doing one of these again.
Graham
Well not exactly today but anyway my first attempt at garden design this is one of nine panels I have designed and had cut out, ( water jet I want one ). And no the customer did not want a top band to save people from being spiked to death or suffer serious injury, I did try.
Specifications and really nerdy facts, just in case any one is interested.
Made from corten 3mm plate, 1800 x 750 mm.
We bought 4.5 sheets of 3600 x 1500 sheets of 3mm corten total spend $800 - £400 ish
All figures below are an average across the 9 panels.
It took me 3 hours to draw each panel. I drew everything free hand then imported into a graphic program then traced each part then smoothed out cut path then attached everything together for the cutting program. Very steep learning curve.
There was 42,000 points per drawing for the machine to follow the cut path.
There was over 400m of cutting per panel.
It took on average 3.5 hours to cut each panel.
The water jet used 93kwh per panel.
A lot of garnet sand which I forgot to measure at the start, oops.
Not an average but, I’m never doing one of these again.
Graham