Post by cmcclure17 on Dec 26, 2018 22:55:47 GMT
Hello, everyone. This is my first time posting to this forum (and maybe my second time posting to any forum), so please bear with me while I figure out this interface.
I managed to grab a power Route during the Black Friday sale, and am about 1/3 of the way through assembling it. In the meantime (i.e. while I am visiting family for the holidays and am away from the machine), I am trying to design an enclosure with the help of some of my relatives.
I saw a post on the power route's final dimensions: 37in (+2 for motor shaft) by 37in (+12 if electronics are installed beside the machine) by 29in, for final measurements of 39inx49inx29in. However, I wasn't sure if that accounted for the machine's full travel range along the y-axis, and I'm worried that the machine might collide with the enclosure.
My original plan for the enclosure was to grab some aluminum t-track extrusions (much like the ones comprising the power route itself) and create a cube box using sheets of plexiglass as the cube's sides. However, the t-track extrusions extrusions that I can get my hands on are all 1 meter long (39.37in. converted), which may be cutting it close when the machine's y-axis is all the way back.
I was wondering if anyone had either:
1. Good dimensions for the power route's full range of motion.
2. Any power route enclosure builds they could point me to.
3. Random advice on enclosure construction that might help me.
I managed to grab a power Route during the Black Friday sale, and am about 1/3 of the way through assembling it. In the meantime (i.e. while I am visiting family for the holidays and am away from the machine), I am trying to design an enclosure with the help of some of my relatives.
I saw a post on the power route's final dimensions: 37in (+2 for motor shaft) by 37in (+12 if electronics are installed beside the machine) by 29in, for final measurements of 39inx49inx29in. However, I wasn't sure if that accounted for the machine's full travel range along the y-axis, and I'm worried that the machine might collide with the enclosure.
My original plan for the enclosure was to grab some aluminum t-track extrusions (much like the ones comprising the power route itself) and create a cube box using sheets of plexiglass as the cube's sides. However, the t-track extrusions extrusions that I can get my hands on are all 1 meter long (39.37in. converted), which may be cutting it close when the machine's y-axis is all the way back.
I was wondering if anyone had either:
1. Good dimensions for the power route's full range of motion.
2. Any power route enclosure builds they could point me to.
3. Random advice on enclosure construction that might help me.