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Sorry Dave, it's 3mm Birch Ply.  Hope the relay board wiring goes to plan.   Si.

Dave, I just ran a test cut of my motor mount file with a 1.5mm chipbreaker bit (like the one I gave you). I reduced the feedrate to 0.7ipm and it worked pretty well, although it did burn the edges of the ply a little. I taped some 3mm depron to either side of the ply so that the drive roller had more material in contact with it.   It's slow going, it took about 20mins to cut this mount, but I don't think I could cut one by hand in the same amount of time.   Si.    

Peter, there are a few ways of adjusting the cutting height. Pockets (milled areas) are created by generated using one of the Phlatscript tools in Sketchup, for each area you can define the cutting height as a percentage of the material thickness. Tabs (the pieces that hold the cut parts to the rest of the sheet) can also have a user defined height. There is also a 'Fold' tool that allows you to specify the cut height of individual lines if required.    The Phlatprinter is actually capable of 2.5D cutting (full 3D cutting requires a 4 axis machine so that the material can be rotated). At the moment this is not possible using Sketchup, but below is a photo of a 2.5D cut created using the Phlatprinter :     Hope this helps, Si.

Hi Guys,   Dave asked me to post a few photos of different materials i've cut on my Phlatprinter. Basically, if you can cut the material with a Dremel then the Phlatty will process the material, albeit at slower speeds for denser materials.   0.8mm Epoxy Glass Motor Mount  3mm Depron Micro Shockflyer 1mm HDPE Control Horns 5mm B&Q Foam (Pocketing Test) Hope the pics give you some idea of what's possible.   Cheers, Si.