Hey there im really sorry for the late reply I dont seem to get any notifications. You have probably moved on from this but Ill explain anyway for anyone else. I created the tubes with the notches in solidworks with weldments. I then converted the solids from this into sheetmetal and flattened them out. There was no way to directly program the laser from this information so I printed out a template on paper and attached this to the tube, the jig you see to hold the tube was designed so that I could accurately place each tube and the template for repeatable accuracy. We then manually created the tool path based on the template.
Hello. I would really like to know more about the procees You used to convert model into tubes. Can You please share contact with me?
Hey there im really sorry for the late reply I dont seem to get any notifications. You have probably moved on from this but Ill explain anyway for anyone else.
I created the tubes with the notches in solidworks with weldments. I then converted the solids from this into sheetmetal and flattened them out. There was no way to directly program the laser from this information so I printed out a template on paper and attached this to the tube, the jig you see to hold the tube was designed so that I could accurately place each tube and the template for repeatable accuracy. We then manually created the tool path based on the template.