Hi,

The company that cuts the parts is named Agibox (name of the boss is Sylvain Cotte). In order to acquire Polyboard, he filled an application to have some money from the region. In fact he can pretend to have 10 % subsidiary help of the total amount. I now work there for two weeks, I was interested of how they work with their CN…

Cheers,

Michal

Hello,

I’m back with the project finished. The client is very satisfied. 

The production process worked nicely. I’ve set sub-methods in Polyboard for hinges, sliders and drawers, grooves for back panels, holes for mobile shelves and edging… Ness prepared a nesting (with Optinest I suppose) in panels as the CN company works that way (in attached picture you can see the cut off panel)  The cut was extremely precise and I’ve certainly saved lots of time working this way. As the CN machine was not able to make grooves in panel edge, I’ve made all assembly with my Domino, which is very fast as I don’t need to measure. I could use dowels and cams but that suppose machining each individual part separetely… and the cost would be much higher I suppose.

I made a demonstration for the boss of the Cn company and he was very impressed by the possibilities of Polyboard, they plan to buy a full version of Polyboard… and he contacted Ness for an offer for Polyboard PP. I hope that will work.

In attached files you can see the pictures of the project finished.

Great thank to Mark and Ness for providing their help and guidance through my first project built under Polyboard. 

Cheers,

Michal

hi Ness,

sorry for the late answer. The grooving problem and the edging problem were solved. Nevertheless I made by myself the nesting of the 22mm panel as the nesting you provided wasn’t correct. A lot of components in duple. Quite difficult to find out what is where, with 5 panels instead of 3…tiring computer work. Everything is now in machining as the contracting company needed it for monday, I hope there will be no further problem. 

Can you send me the 3d dxf file please?  

Hi Ness,

Thank you for nesting. The CNC machinist told me it should be ok. He will process it normally the next week. 

Nevertheless, before cutting, there are several things I don’t understand in the files you sent. And I will have to modify them before cutting… after will be too late.

1.The 10 mm groove in the sides, top and bottom (for the back panel) stops at 53.59 mm from the edge of the panel. It should stop at 10, as the panels of the box are 18mm thick and the depth of the groove set in polyboard is 8mm. I’ve modified it manually but I’d like yo understand why.

2.There is some problem with the edging I suppose. In the files you sent, for example the 22mm board for facade elements (doors and drawer facades) the hole for the blum hinge should be at 23 mm from the edge. It sure is at 23 mm but the edge of 1mm was not deduced, so it will be at 24 mm after edging. Let’s take another example of the ‘caisson haut double porte’ : when we check the width of the double door (one door is cut at 523.75 x 2 = 1047.5, we put edges 4 x 1mm, we have 1051.5. The slacks shold be 1.5 on the left, 2.5 in the middle and 2.5 on the right = 6.5 mm: 1051.5 + 6.5=  1058mm. It should be 1054. So 4 mm more than needed. I found the same problem of 1 mm in the box parts (18mm panel). I can’t check the 15mm panel as I do not have the dxf file of the whole project.

In the 2 pdfs I send, you can see the detail. I also send the polyboard file as I modified the groove for back depth finally to 12 mm instead of 8 mm. If you can change that in the nesting, it would be perfect, otherwise it will stay on 8mm.

And the last: Would you mind sending the dxf file of the whole project as I like to see what I’m doing and keep the possibility of modifying it in cad program.

Thanks,

Michal