CAD drawings for waterjet

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Jared Dinwoodie

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I’m looking to cut down on dreaded bandsaw time and have some things water jetted, does anyone on here have experience with CAD and be willing to create a file for me if I were to send a paper drawing or the actual parts to enter?
 
Gene Kimmi said:
Depending on where you are going to have your blanks cut, they may do that for you. I know New Jersey Steel Baron does. I sent them templates of my blades out of 1/4" plywood and they did the CAD work.
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Portland Waterjet does the CAD for me. I can send in a crude schematic, a drawing, a paper cutout, pretty much anything. 😆 They even took a walk-in where I asked, "Can you cut a 4" hole in this thing for me real quick?"
 
Gene Kimmi said:
Depending on where you are going to have your blanks cut, they may do that for you. I know New Jersey Steel Baron does. I sent them templates of my blades out of 1/4" plywood and they did the CAD work.
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the place I was going wants to charge $800 to enter it into CAD file. How much does Bruno at NJSB charge you?
 
Mecha said:
Portland Waterjet does the CAD for me. I can send in a crude schematic, a drawing, a paper cutout, pretty much anything. 😆 They even took a walk-in where I asked, "Can you cut a 4" hole in this thing for me real quick?"
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How much do they charge?
 
Jared Dinwoodie said:
How much do they charge?
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They haven't charged me anything for rendering a CAD file, but what I ask for are simple shapes. I don't know if or what they charge for something complex.

The prices are per inch of cut, and depend on how crude or refined the cuts need to be (refined cuts are slower and cost more).
 
Jared Dinwoodie said:
the place I was going wants to charge $800 to enter it into CAD file. How much does Bruno at NJSB charge you?
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Yikes... if they charge that much to render a CAD drawing, I'd hate to know what they think their machine time is worth.
 
Jared Dinwoodie said:
the place I was going wants to charge $800 to enter it into CAD file.
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what are they quoting for? a 2d cad model of one blade, or a full 3d model with bevels and for an entire sheet?

my experience with laser and waterjet is you only need a simple 2d vector drawing. if you're willing to spend a few minutes with the grinder you can even skip the curves and simplify the shape down to straight lines.
 
When I wanted 15 blanks cut at a local place I just sent them a full size drawing with hole dimensions written on and they cut them. Like was said above they charged by the inch of cut.
 
Leading Edge Fabricating has a thread under Hosted Knife Makers Forums. Waterjet H2Oknife, Mark Vanderwest. Keeps steel in stock.
 
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