We will skip turning tonight because we don't own submarines! Be careful driving tonight. Supposed to rain a lot from 6-8 pm. Turning will resume next Thursday 6 pm . 

Not too formal, just talking about current and future projects. I will bring some bowls I turned. Will we have pizza? Hmm, we might have pizza! RSVP to info@colamakerspace.com

We are installing a local hard-wired network. We have a rack and router installed. Fighting with cabling and ceiling ties now

Made a cedar bowl from wood found in the dump. There is a little crack, but otherwise turned out well. 

We finished the welding and duct work (mostly) on the hood today. The hood draws the welding fumes away from you and out the window much better. 

 We installed a new vise in the metal shop! The metal bucket with the lid is for welding trash - in case it is hot. The other bucket can be filled with water for quenching parts.​

Made some progress on the welding hood last night. I hope to get some duct work this weekend. Also installed a MIG gun holster.
I turned some cedar on the lathe. It smells great. 

Autocad Fusion 360 is a CAD program that is free for  hobbyists. I used it to design an enclosure for my CNC machine at home. All of the parts (plywood and foam) are rectangles of various sizes. There are 30 pieces and writing down the dimensions of 30 rectangles would be boring.

So, I found a free plug-in to export a parts list with dimensions. Then I found a free program to layout the parts on the stock plywood and foam sheets. The program samples a million possibilities to find the most efficient layout. It was written by Gary Darby and is on the Delphi for Fun page.

Here are the links/files:
Parts list Fusion plugin CSV-BOM
Cut list program

You have to re-arrange the CSV-BOM layout a little, then open the text file in the cut list program.
Here is the text file. "Required" is a list of the parts  you need. "Available" is a list of the stock available. "Decimalseparator." may not be needed, not sure
###
Decimalseparator.
 
Required
48    48    btm
48    48    top
48    36    front
48    36    back
46.5    36    left
46.5    36    right

Available
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
###

Here is the output of the cut list program:
cnc_enclosure_wood_parts.pdf

We had a bunch of projects going on last night. We set up the wood planer and router table. Others were working on coding and robot projects. 
​We made a 'live-edge' mouse pad from a piece of firewood. You can see the progress below. Probably not really useful as a mouse pad, but a fun project. 

Tool training Wednesday is tomorrow. I plan to set up the wood planer, but will meet with anyone who wants to learn anything else. I also might try out our new welder.
Thursday is a Wood Turning night, same deal. Members can bring a wood blank if you want to make something. Get them from Mann Tools. About 10x10x3 inches is good