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    text: "Really useful how-to, would be great if you can add some feeds and speeds to it!"
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  - text: "super useful, thankuuuuuu, i agree with easy moulds, we've been working with a cnc and sometimes the speed of the machine damages our plastic sheet, so it would be nice to know what is working for you!"
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    text: "Nice how-to Plastico Chido!"
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    text: "Hello! We have done some CNCing on PP plastic, First I would recommend single flute mill bit. You can do a calculation here: https://cutter-shop.com/feeds-and-speeds-calculator/ but always take it as a starting point: For example 18000rpm single flute 6 mm diameter mill bit feed rate in Metres per minute:\tMin:3.200\tmax:4.572"
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description: "In this how to, I will show you our process to cut HDPE Sheets using a X-Carve CNC.\n\nHere is the full video in spanish with subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LrrFz802To "
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    text: "For this step we need to meassure our plastic sheet: Height, Width and Thickness.  Our X-Carve machine works with the CAM Software EASEL, for me, the easiest software for CNC milling out there. \n\nThe cool thing about Easel (https://easel.inventables.com/) is that you can \"simulate\" you actual material and THEY EVEN HAVE HDPE 2-Colors in their cutting material lists!!\n\n\n"
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    text: "Now we go to our illustrator, such as Inkscape to design a vector file or download and open source one frome https://thenounproject.com/.\n\nWe download the SVG file, which is an open source vector format and import it to Easel. \n"
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    text: "Now with the file we can choose the width we want to carve/cut and then we go to cut and start the wizzard:\n- We check that the sheet is fixed.\n- We also specify the cutting bit, we are using a 1/8 flat flute bit. \n- We tell the machine where the coordinate 0-0 is, which we always choose as the down left corner.\n- We raise the bit, turn on the Router!!!\n\nAND PUM THE MAGIC BEGINS!!"
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  - text: "Normaly we cut wood, acrylic and aluminum in the CNC.  Moving to plastic wasn't hard at all, it's impressing how easy the router\ncuts through HDPE. It's quicker than cutting wood and 10 times than aluminum. \n\nThe main problem we have with the HDPE sheets is that we don't always have even surfaces, because of our sheet making process, resulting in uneven cuts and engravings. \n\nThat's why we sometimes do a first pass with the router \"cleaning\" the surface of the sheet and trying to mill an even surface. "
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