Schiedam

Contractor HBG,

nowadays BAM <nl>, moves concrete form plant

The Xplot-3002 of March-1986 was upgraded and refurbished to allow Heavy Duty Routing.
Previously this machine was used for pen-plotting and draw/engrave lines by means of a light engraver tool head.
The recent upgrade with a High Frequency Automatic Tool Change Spindle is done to route concrete mold parts in plywood, directly controlled by Xplot Turnkey Software that runs within AutoCAD.

	Form Plant Schiedam <nl>
First CAD/CAM solution in Civil Engineering installed in 1986.
	Refurbished Xplot-3002 for HD-routing
Producing Xlock-patches; best test for system performance
	Quality monitoring during routing
Routing 7.5 meters in 18mm plywood at a feed rate of 3 meters/min. (depending on router dia.) produces an X-locked 4' by 8' workpiece in less than 5 minutes
	To fix workpieces like this 18 mm plywood sheet just 3 screws are sufficient to enables quick clamping down and removal.
Debris of cutting tests is used to determine the proper tool-offsets for seemless joining and maximum strength.
	Making sure the table is clean when the routing is done!
When waste is removed, the debris in the 18 mm deep grooves becomes visible and is manually removed by vacuuming the table.
	It should resembles the AutoCAD-2007 drawing ...
and is ready to take away.
	Two X-lock parts are put together and will be rigidly connected by using a Dead Blow Hammer
Since the edges are perfectly perpendicular routed, the need to lower the plywood sheets perpendicular on each other really is the most difficult part of finishing the X-lock connection
	Xplot produced X-lock connection; demo shows how to extend 4'-by-8' plywood sheets to approx. 7.5'-by-8'
X-lock by X-plot.....
	for which there is subtle advertising. See our poster of the X-lock system as frequently used in Yacht building and in construction.