2mo
Finally finished the sign recently.
The aluminum letters were cut some time ago, when I first got the machine. The steel logo was more recent after getting the settings dialed in better.
These are straight off the table before any cleanup:
Anyway, you can check out this video to see some of the cuts:
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I guess I should include some shots of the final product… 
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@Jason Burns looks great great work. is this the largest thing you’ve cut. the only reason I ask is I can’t decide if I want to get the arcdroid or crossfire pro 
just wondering your thoughts and if you ran into a situation where you weren’t able to cut something larger
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@Shane Clouse I think the logo is the biggest piece I’ve done. The length, close to 30 inches, is about the size limit in a straight line. It’s 8 or 9 inchs wide.
I understand, it’s a tough choice, I had ordered a crossfire pro last year. It ended up delayed several times and I found out about the ArcDroid. After thinking about it, the Simple Trace feature and potential future upgrades and uses outweighed the extra cutting space. Also it was compact enough I knew I’d have space since it was my intention to also get a CNC mill.
With all that in mind, it really depends on your use case. Proabbly 95% or more of what most people would cut can be done with the ArcDroid. Ya, there’s larger stuff I may want to cut but, I’d split the file into piece and weld stuff together if I had to. But that wouldn’t make sense if I were doing it for a business and had a lot of larger things to cut. Then I would look at the Crossfire Pro.
Good luck, hope you can land something!
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@Jason Burns The sign looks great!! How did you fasten and space your letters off the wood to get the shadow box look, keeping all the individual letters so straight?
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@Mat Tomljenovic Thanks Mat. Trade secret…haha
There are several ways you could do it.
I welded nuts to the back of everything (aluminum for the letters, SS for the logo) and bolted it all together. Since I couldn’t cut it all one go, for alignment, same idea as a story stick, I made a story board. Basically just made spacing marks on it. Almost like making a template but done right on the mounting board, marked on masking tape. I did pre-defined measurments on the letters so I would know where to place nuts and have it all line up. And made a custom alignment tool so I could get nut placement centered on each letter.
It sounds more complicated than it really is.
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@Jason Burns Thanks for the info Jason. I also looked at some other Youtube videos on hanging individual letters using wall anchors, and I think that I just try to over think things 
. Keep your Youtube videos coming, great job!!
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