Well, I am sick of trying to work with CNC programmers, after spending a week looking for anyone with a 4X8 vac table machine in the Boulder area that had a drafting program that could read my OSX dfx files (and finding no one) I've decided to go old school. Yes thats right. 1:1 PDF & Kinko's. I'm taking some stanchion drawings down to them, have them printed out on 36'' wide paper from their plotter, then Super 77 them to some MDF, and start getting after it. I'm going to do all the moulds for this first boat by hand. I don't care what all you smarty pants NA's out there say. All kinds of boats have been done this way (moth's, IC's, Swifts, A Cats, ect.) it will be fine. With the fantastic way the economy is going in this country, I find myself with more time than money. And I will finally be able to get to work.
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You've obviously been in the product development business too long. Dropping a proposed task method and choosing another with less technical obstacles shows an alarming tendency towards getting things done on time.
If you aren't careful, this project will succeed and you will be foiling next year instead of building a CD/ROM's worth of excuses on why it didn't work.
Good decision Sam.
I use Surface Works instead of Rhino. It was easy to export to MasterCam to get my part cut on a waterjet cutter. I know you are way past this point. Just thought I'd mention it.
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