Shuster Table

Description

This is a digital download file only.

This file is an excel spreadsheet file that was created by Mr. Rob Shuster and was donated for use by others after he watched a YouTube Video where I was discussing multiple color epoxy inlays.  He told me I was welcome to share this file with any others that were interested in using it and required no compensation for its use.

 

He structured this file so that a person could use it to determine the minimum width of a vector that would be required to reach a referenced cut depth for a given angled vbit angle.

 

The first column of the spreadsheet is the desired depth of cut for common vbit angles.  The first row of calculated information is based on a desired depth of cut of .0.01”.  Each subsequent row increases by 0.01”.

 

The top of row of data is based on common vbit angles people may use in the Vectric CNC software.

 

To use the table, you start with how deep you want the vBit to cut (first column of data) and then as you look across that row of data you look at the vbit angle you are wanting to use from the top row.  From the depth you want to obtain (first column) and the vbit you want to use (top row of column) the formula will calculate the minimum width of the vector needed to achieve that depth of cut with the bit.

 

This process can be reversed in the table.  By looking at the width of the vector someone is trying to vcarve and the angle of the vbit, one can then go back to the first column to determine how deep that vbit will cut (provided it is not limited by flat depth in the Vectric software.

 

This ability is especially useful in determining if vectors in a multiple color epoxy project will be deep enough to use and not get surfaced out.