Guides: what the app does with each fitting, and how to set it up | TurboClad

Guides

What the app does, and how to set it up

You know the fitting. This is what TurboClad needs from you, what it prints, where it puts the laps, swages and seams, and how to get it out at 1:1.

Fittings

Lobster back: what the app does with it
What you give it, what it prints, and the two guards that stop a bad radius reaching the sheet.
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Mitred elbow: what the app does with it
The free one. Make one by hand, print one, lay them on top of each other. That is the whole pitch.
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Vessel heads and the chart: what the app does with them
Six tiles under Vessel Ends, the Common Vessel Head Types chart as a dropdown, and the gore that comes out with CUT n OFF on it.
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Setting up

Printing

Print at 100%: the one setting that ruins templates
Nearly every wrong template comes back to a printer that scaled the page. The bar on the sheet is how you know.
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CNC and DXF

DXF to the CNC: what comes out and how to set it
The developed pattern as line work for the plasma or the laser, with the holes and the kerf the way your table wants them. Workshop.
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