We will have two stock materials/thicknesses available for making your part on Free Part Day: waterjet cut aluminum 6061 1/8 (0.125) inches thick and laser cut clear acrylic plastic, 0.118 inches thick.
There is a limit of one design (DXF/PNG/GIF or Big Blue Saw Designer file) per customer.
Designs are limited in size to 9" x 9". Designs must be LESS THAN 9 inches in both dimensions.
We reserve the right to reject designs that are too complex or can't be made on the waterjet or the laser. (See Ordering Your Free Part, below.)
You must pay the packaging and shipping costs.
All orders must be completed through the online ordering process.
Orders must be completed, including payment, on August 6, 2008.
We reserve the right to refuse any free part day order.
Keep in mind that the purpose of Free Part Day is to provide people with an introduction to Big Blue Saw's service. Please don't abuse this by attempting to go against the spirit in which this offer is made.
Choose 0.118 inch thick clear acrylic or 0.125 inch thick aluminum 6061 as your material.
If you've done everything correctly, the price will show up as $0 for quantity 1. If you see another price, your design is too large, or is too complex.
Order exactly quantity 1 of your part. If you want more than one copy of an item, you need to put it in your original design file and comply with the complexity and size requirements for Free Part Day. Or pay for it. If you order more than one free part, we will ship one. If you attempt to add more than one line item with free parts, we will ship you the first line item.
I tested a file last week which complied with all of the requirements they listed, but it didn't ring up free today. I had to take a lot off of my design and choose a sample less than 7" to get it for free.
I've tried several combinations to make it less complex, but to no avail. If I made it any simpler, I could just do it by hand.
If I made the design use less material (Less than 9"x8.5") would that help? Or do I need to get rid of more angles? A little info on your filter would help me out a lot.
My design works with the aluminum (cost was $0), but when I choose plastic, it registers as $81. Can you do more complicated designs on aluminum vs plastic?
Estimated prices for file U3K6-U4E2-panobrkt.dxf
made of material Aluminum 6061, 0.125 inches thick. File consists of 3 parts. As displayed, parts are 3.25 inches wide by 9 inches tall. It est. price at 1000pcs is $7.99....
Estimated prices for file B4G0-G4H0-panobrkt2.dxf
made of material Aluminum 6061, 0.125 inches thick. File consists of 3 parts. As displayed, parts are 2.75 inches wide by 8.5 inches tall.
Still Smaller and Cheaper Per 1000 but still no go...
I e-mailed you about this design earlier last week, and now I'm having a problem with the new qualifications for producing it. At the old quote of $8/1000 pieces, it costs $7.68 (Al). However, it's showing as $81/1 piece. Am I not going to be able to have it made?
Everyone: if you have a specific question about your design, please e-mail info@bigbluesaw.com instead of posting here. Try to keep the messages posted here to those which might be of interest to everyone.
Worked like a champ, thanks! At first, only free Al showed up, then I shrunk the layout a bit more & free plastic showed up too (seems to have some sort of border requirement that's actually less than 9"x9"?).
I have been trying to upload all afternoon but the website is extremely slow and now is not loading at all. When I do get to the upload page and click upload, it loads for a while and then all I get is a blank page. any suggestions? I really was looking forward to this.
get all the way to this point and it won't let me go any further. it tells me I have to select a shipping method but there are no buttons. Just a greyed out set of estimates for the US UK and canada...
It was awesome of you guys to extend... I just attempted upload:
M4Z8-B5Q5-5VregNLite_tray.cln.dxf
made of material Aluminum 6061, 0.125 inches thick. File consists of 1 part. As displayed, parts are 2.587 inches wide by 6.499 inches tall.
1000 $3.50
