Digit - ThermoCut Pro hot wire foam cutters

ThermoCut foam cutter
machines for hot-wire foam cutting	Foam cutters - ThermoCut Pro make complete novelty new on the advertising market. They find their usage to create 3D advertising, sign-boards, decorations, or architectural elements. The combination of materials' lightness and durability with extreme cutting precision let form even the most creative projects. ThermoCut series are equipped with hardware drivers that includes the newest IT technologies. Thanks to innovate technology of preformatted wire and turntable with the feature of lathe, ThermoCut hot wire foam cutters let gain 3D effects unavailable in any other device. They also let create illusions of various materials. Elements created in such way have inviting price and are visually attractive.
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INCREASE YOUR PROFITS, GIVE 3D TO YOUR IMAGINATION The THERMOCUT foam cutter is a machine controlled by a computer capable to cut out any 3D objects out from extruded and expanded polystyrene, polyethylene and polypropylene foams. Cutting is done by a hot wire moving in the X-Y plane through the use of micro stepping motors controlled by a computer. This allows making fast and precise cuttings of the foam material. The precision control makes it possible to cut objects of nearly any shape given that their thickness is to be the same as the thickness of material used. By designing and cutting various views of one object it is also possible to construct even more complicated 3D objects. A very simple example of this could for instance be the cutting of an airplane model out of Styrofoam.
Using of a turntable (an additional equipment available with ThermoCut hot wire foam cutters), one can also cut out all the solids of revolution, including the sphere. As perfect innovation there are also used preformatted wire technology, which let receive unavailable shapes of cut objects using other device. Installed turntable vertically or horizontally gives additional possibilities of 3D work. (The same motor can be used as a turntable or a lathe!)
ADAPTATIONS:
3 D MASSES How many times you faced the problem of making complicated 3D logotypes. Every already known method seemed to be unsuitable or too expensive. THERMOCUT will do everything, your imagination is the limit only.	volumetric letters with Polydecor coating	architectural elements hardened with Styrocrete

FAIR, THEATRE AND FILM DECORATIONS, SCENOGRAPHY There is no machine as useful when building fair stalls and film or theatre stage decorations. Due to speed and precision it is possible to create every scenography in a short time and without spending lots of money.
ARCHITECTURE ELEMENTS Styrofoam architecture details (moulds, finials, banisters, keystones, parapet caps, balusters) covered by strengthening nets and stuccoes become very popular, due to its weight, easy assembly, precision of realization, price and the fact that they are environmentally friendly. Columns & corbels, spirals or fluted spirals can be cut with the help of the turn table / lathe.
trim profiles
PIPE ISOLATION, MOULDERS cladding, insulation elements
DECORATIVE AND ADVERTISING ELEMENTS
CASTING FORMS One of interesting uses of this plotter is production of positive forms used for moulds, in moulding sand, of details from cast-iron and colored metals ( e.g. aluminum, bronze ). This method of production is cheaper and far more precise than the traditional ones.
PACKAGES, CUSTOM PACKAGING Nothing is able to replace our machine in a short-series production of foam packages used to ensure safe transport of electronics and museum or fair exhibits.

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highlights

THERMOCUT IS:

possibility of creating letters and three-dimensional solids of almost unlimited size.
possibility of assembly of ready graphical elements on elevations of all kinds, including glass, thanks to applying super-light materials.
long-term durability of materials from companies like Ursa, BASF, Dow Chemical, proved by European certificates.
high, almost unlimited colour possibilities, thanks to applying of acryl and latex enamels, resistant to all kinds of weather conditions
low price of production materials, enabling realization of huge projects at a really low expense.

ThermoCut Pro 35 foamcutter

Relatively low price of THERMOCUT plotter, which in combination with very cheap raw production materials and high demand for products, makes its purchase probably the most profitable investment for an advertising company.

Remote control allow to avoid necessity of controlling directly from computer. Foam cutter control becomes intuitive and more comfortable. Material processing can be realize under operator control, who can immediately control foam cutter. Operator has influence on basic device parameters, like speed or resistant wire temperature. Remote control is designed also to control revolving table.

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accessories
TURNTABLE / LATHE The turntable is a part of additional equipment of THERMOCUT hot wire foam cutters gives you the possibility of cutting solids of revolution. There is also additional possibility to install it in vertical axle which let use it as lathe. Together with the possibility of performing fluent turn it lets cut long solid, for example spirals. The same motor can be used as a revolving table, turntable or as a lathe machine.

PREFORMATTED WIRE (Shape wire with adapter)
0,9 mm in diameter preformatted wire for independent forming, added in option to THERMOCUT foam cutters, lets gain incredible effects.


PERSPECTIVE: Independent arm motion ('P' series)
'P' series foam cutter has advanced function of cutting in perspective mode. Independent motion of both arms under special software control give opportunity of cutting solids which consist of two bases with different shapes and dimensions. You can cut cones, pyramids and letters with perspective impression within one cutting cycle. (Not available for Pro 35 Basic and Pro 35.)
Since 1st December 2005 we give 'P' option FREE for ThermoCut machines!
MULTIWIRE ('MW' option)
For several years our standard range of products has included multiwire cutters. Coner thermal cutters may be equipped with one or two arms, each holding up to 5 cutting wires. As a unique feature, Coner thermal cutter detects rupture of individual wires and continues processing from the point it left off after the severed wire has been replaced. (Only for ThermoCut Pro 130A Midi or bigger machines. Not useable with 'P' option.)

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specification

PRO35
Basic

PRO35

PRO60P
Basic

PRO60P

PRO130PA

PRO130P

PRO240PA

PRO240P

PRO300P

Mini

Midi

Max

Mini

Midi

Mini

Midi

Max

cutting length (X) [cm]

130

240

300

130

240

300

130

240

120

cutting height (Y) [cm]

120

max. material thickness (V) [cm]

130

240

300

wire

high resistance, long life Titanium wire

cutting wire thickness [mm]

0,25

0,3

preformatted wire thickness [mm]

0,9

resolution

0,01mm

max. wire movement speed

700 cm/min

max. cutting speed

280 cm/min

cooling fans

2 micro - turbines

wire tension

automatic

numbers of motors

machine construction

heavy duty anodized aluminum extrusion

power required

230V / 50Hz

power consumption

150

200

250

750

950

electronic controller

autonomic, controlling the work of motors

turntable / lathe
(one motor for both purposes)

S 10

S 150

option*

S150

option*

S150

preformatted wire (shapewire)

yes

option*

yes

option*

yes

perspective cutting ('P' function)

yes

2 - 10 cutting wires ('MW' Multiwire option)

option*

remote controller

option*

computer power required

Pentium class PC with free serial port ( RS232 )

computer operating system

Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, XP

suggested graphical program

CorelDraw or other with data HPGL or AutoCAD or other with DXF export

warranty

1 year, 3 years

35 Basic

60 Basic

130A

130

240A

240

300

* options only for new order

Included: plotter electronic controller reserve of resisting wire software SoftCUT (English or Hungarian language interface) manuals cut-off switches turntable (option or standard) preformatted wire (option or standard)
SOFTWARE CONTROL: SoftCUT
system requirements:
Minimum: Pentium, 16 MB Ram, Windows 95, any program with HPGL export (e.g. CorelDraw) or DXF export (e.g. AutoCAD)
basic functions:
	importation of HPGL and DXF files "auto linking" between letters manually replacement manually replacement of turntable production details: time to cut, speeds, temperature, material control cutting procedure On-screen cutting simulation scale
Comparison of maximal speeds
Maximum speed of movement
Maximum speed of the plotter in X and Y-axes during shifting movements.
Maximum working speed
Software limited cutting speed of the plotter, resulting from the processing power and technological conditions of polystyrene foam processing
Maximum recommended speed
The highest speed with the maintenance of high quality cutting line. Technological conditions of polystyrene foam (Styrodur) cutting make it impossible to process it with the speed higher than 70 cm per minute. While processing the Styrofoam with the specific gravity 15kg/m³ this speed can be increased to maximum working speed of our devices, that is 70 cm per minute. In case of Styrodur processing it would be possible to increase the value to maximum working speed through making the diameter of resistance wire bigger ( to ca 0,6mm* ). However, the bumming resulting crack would be unacceptable in this case, due to the fact it would grow to ca 2mm, and required power supply would grow to about 1KW, which would make our device very energy-consuming.
* provided diameter of resistance wire is only an example value. In THERMOCUT plotters only resistance wires, with diameters consistent with technical specifications of individual models, provided by manufacturers can be used. Using resistance wires from other sources, and of different diameter or composition can lead to electronic driver malfunction and loss of guarantee.