Rob P's Silhouette Cameo Cutter Workbench

lankytank

Western Thunderer
Hmmmmm......... that'd look really good in G1 (1:32, that is!), must go and dig out the book, thanks Rob, feel some investigative work coming on.....
 

Puddlejumper

Western Thunderer
Hi Rob
The Inkscape ones would be great, I've got access to a cutter (even thinking of getting one for Xmas) but need to get stuck in to the software and learn to draw. How are you finding the software to use?.
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
How are you finding the software to use?.

Like everything it's a learning curve but I am glad I made the effort. Getting the machine has given me a focus to do something with it that was lacking without - I downloaded Inkscape about 9 months ago but didn't do anything with it....:rolleyes::oops:

For the basics I can thoroughly recommend Mike Trice's thread on RMweb

I think that it also helps if you are quite keyboard orientated because it gives you so much more fine control when drawing, especially when you start edit by nodes rather than dragging by the arrows.
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Subject to have a look with fresh eyes tomorrow I think that it's finished.

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Assumning that I don't find any glaring errors next I need to export it from Inkscape and then re-import it into Silhouette Studio ready for cutting but that's a job for tomorrow, I need a break...
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Hi Rob, are you importing DXF files to the silhouette or SVG?
Hi Phil,

DXF, unless you buy the Designer Edition of Silhouette Studio it won't accept svg files. So far I haven't read about anyone having tried it to work out whether it's worth spending to money on.
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Thanks both,

I do have a copy of TurboCAD and I have tried Draftsight but couldn't get on with either - to be honest I suspect that I didn't have enough incentive at the time.

Since replying to Phil above Chris has bought me the Designer Edition of Silhouette Studio, which means that I can now open svg files directly without converting them, so I will stick with Inkscape for the time being since I am getting the the hang of it.:thumbs:
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Over the weekend I put together one of the LNER Guard's ducket's.

Actually I did two, but the first was with a solid backing piece to test/see how it went together.

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I had some paint to hand so I went over it to make it better to photograph and to say that it's cut from 10thou, now that it's assembled it's remarkably sturdy:drool:
 

Puddlejumper

Western Thunderer
Looks good Rob, great bit of work.
Just a thought but perhaps it would be helpful to have a Dropbox type account where folk could upload their drawings for other people to use?? A sort of you show me yours and I'll show you mine type of thing. Just me thinking out loud and may be totally off the map :drool:
 

BrushType4

Western Thunderer
Looks good Rob, great bit of work.
Just a thought but perhaps it would be helpful to have a Dropbox type account where folk could upload their drawings for other people to use?? A sort of you show me yours and I'll show you mine type of thing. Just me thinking out loud and may be totally off the map :drool:

If this is something people would be interested in I wouldn't mind hosting on my website.
 

Puddlejumper

Western Thunderer
Wow, thanks Phil & Rob. It was really just a bit of a thinking out loud comment and all of a sudden it's happened!!
No more excuses for not getting stuck in with the software now :thumbs:
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
I cut out much of the CCT last night and was really impressed with the quality of the cut and the small details

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To give an idea of the sizes involved the piece with the hole in to the left of the image above is 1mm wide

Now I need to remove the sides from the cutting mat to see how I fared cutting 20 thou material.
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
I have spent quite a bit of time working on the NER CCT this weekend.

Like a complete numpty, I forgot to take either drawing or photo so despite spending all that time cutting detail for the ends I had no idea what went where without them......:(

But the main body and the side details were another matter.

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Sadly white Styrene isn't the easiest to take photos of but you get the idea - It all went together just as I envisaged and the only thing that I changed was to ease a bit more from the ends of the inner sides/supports and the scored louvres which were very much an experiment to see what they looked like didn't cut it if you will pardon the pun
 

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
A session last night saw some of the end details added with the aid of the drawing - still some to go but I need to make up the chassis next because some of the detail overlaps onto the headstocks.

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I am still struggling to get decent photos with the white plastic....

I also had the brainwave of attempting to cut a roof using the Silhouette reasoning that if I scored lines where the planks would be on a wooden roof it would make the styrene easier to bend. I wasn't quite prepared for just how much a success it would be.

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The very nature of scoring it made it curl as soon as I removed it from the cutting mat. A bit more help from a couple of different sized rods and it fit perfectly.

Another thought was to attempt to create the gutter by using my Olfa cutter deepen the score line adjacent to each edge and then use my hold and fold to bend it into shape - another success:thumbs:
 
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