Re: Home setup
The setup at my work usually only hase pieces with less than 2 square inches.
We make a lot of aperature disk for the laser work. the rest is various optical table parts, often with such complex shapes I cannot figure out the surface area. Now, if I could get them to use Solidworks, it will automatically calculate the surface area.
At home, I will be using Rhino 3d, not sure if it will calculate surface or not.
I have been ramping the voltage since the beginning, too easy to punch the voltage and burn the contact area of the extremely small parts. Imagine having to make contact that will not be in the optical path of a .5 in diameter disk!
Automating the ramping is easy, I have designed the same thing for devices here at work. I just need to teach myself programming.
By the way, to show you how deep I get, I mix the sulfuric acid to water by weight ratio as I do not always know what concentration of acid to water is in the stuff I get from supply. Then I take extremely fine aluminum powder (pure)
and weigh it and mix it in! Is that overkill or what!
By the way, I am the electronic technician in the Physics Department at Virginia Tech.
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