Upgrade from ArcDroid to Langmuir

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Hey all, I’ve had an ArcDroid for a few years and I’m about over it. I’m trying to figure out if the Langmuir PRO product would be an appropriate upgrade. I’m curious of the Langmuir user experience and to hopefully hear from others who has gone down the same ArcDroid to Langmuir path.

Here are my reasons to change:

  • Numerous annoyances such as: calibration never seems to hold (circles become ovals, squares no longer square), calibration sliding thing slipping and having to redo the entire process, lost accuracy the farther from the bot, Z height not properly being detected (generally happens mid part resulting in scorched metal instead of a cut at that feature), dxf importing path problems, and crappy pendant you have to use for everything.
  • 95% of what I cut is generated with CAD. Nearly removing the need for the “Simple Trace” software - the software that allows someone to trace out and cut, say a cardboard cutout.
  • The ArcDroid offers a compact package, but not when you actually want a stationary table. Once mounted (see attached on 36x31" table), it’s not much smaller than a Langmuir table but with a tiny work area.
  • Improved dimensional accuracy of parts

Ultimately I want a tool for my projects, not a toy that seems to generate just as much metal waste as parts.

My question to you guys: Are Langmuir products more reliable? Anything frustrating about them? Are there tracing tools? Any previous ArcDroid users here that have made the change?

Thanks!

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Can’t say I don’t know how reliable a ArcDroid is

There are people that have been on this forum that have been highly frustrated and many that have not. It really depends on your ability to understand the process and make sure things are set up properly. Some guys try to run there table with an air compressor that’s to small and no air drying equipment and than get frustrated when they have problems.

There are no tracing tools that I know of but Google would be where I would look for that aswser.

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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I been looking around google for tracing. Maybe if I get one I can help develop a tracing tool.

The actual plasma cutting works great as it’s tied to a 7.5hp 80 gal Eaton compressor with air dryer. It’s the mechanical motion and supporting software that I can bypass with a more traditional cartesian axes system. From my understanding, once you set a Langmuir machine up it should be geometrically sound with good supporting software.

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I believe this will be true most of the time. But there will always be a small percentage that will have trouble

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