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Geodesic fire pit

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Hey there, this is my first post here and figured id try in come in strong! I've been working on this fire ball on and off for couple weeks now and today got it welded up. This is my first real project I've made and drawn myself other than simple parts.

I had a hard time finding sizes for the shapes so I figured 5.5" for side length for the pentagons and hexagons ended up 26", then went to town with inkscape and viacad. Its a nice size for a small yard but definitely could have went bigger.

I've been welding and fabricating for a while now so that was the easy part of this for me. Around 3 hours start to finish....a fraction of what i spent on the computer drawing and figuring... i only welded the outside corners so ill be watching to see if it warps after some use.

I'm really happy with how it turned out. let me know your thoughts
heres the files i came up with!

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Nice Work!! Looks great.
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Nice ! tnx for the share
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Sick!!
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Very nice, thanks for the share!
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looks great thanks
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This is awesome! Thank you for the share!
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That looks amazing. Thanks for the share.
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Thank you. It looks great and would love to cut one!
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can you tell us how much material it took to make it? I have a charity auction for our local babe ruth base ball team coming up and I think this one would do well.
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This 26" one used almost a full 4x8 sheet cut from 3/16".
a 34" ball used 1.5 4x8 sheets. However depending on your nesting ability you will use less. I did my best but had a lot of wasted space but just cutting in rows.
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Metalmelter1 wrote: Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:57 pm This 26" one used almost a full 4x8 sheet cut from 3/16".
a 34" ball used 1.5 4x8 sheets. However depending on your nesting ability you will use less. I did my best but had a lot of wasted space but just cutting in rows.

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Today I started building your pit with some baseball themed stuff for the local baseball teams charity auction. Thanks much for the file.

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awesome! looks great!
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Thankyou for this wonderful work.
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How would I edit this in inkscape??
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This is a stupid question, but what's the best way to hold all those shapes when you're tacking them in? Adjustable magnets?
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im new to the cnc scene so i was going to ask how many pieces are there to build this ?
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traksta15 wrote: Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:02 pm This is a stupid question, but what's the best way to hold all those shapes when you're tacking them in? Adjustable magnets?
Not stupid! What I do is draw around the base on the bench in chalk and do row 1 against the chalk, holding them by hand or propping them up. Once you do the first two the rest are easy enough. Use the chalk lines to keep you on course. Turn it over and tack the base on.

Turn it back the right way up again and then just hand hold each piece when you tack it but its easier if you move the pit about as you need to rather than doing it all as positional welding.
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Sweet, thanks
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Wow, this thing is awesome! Great job and thanks for sharing it.
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knightmetalworx wrote: Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:44 am im new to the cnc scene so i was going to ask how many pieces are there to build this ?
I took notes when I built the base ball pit,

10 pentagons,
10 hexagons
4 (1/2) hexagons
5 BLANK hexagons 1 burner bottom
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thank you
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That thing is pretty sic! Thank You!
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Nice work ALL! Thanks for taking time to post.
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