re:cutting glass ? and router costs

turbulatordude writes:

>two questions,

>first, has anyone cut glass on a CNC table ?
>is it worth the effort ?

>I'm looking at odd shapes for stained glass windows.

thin sheet glass for LCD's is cut by laser, I think they use the heat to run
the crack where they want it to go. No chipping, at 500 mm /sec. Don't
know about curves.

http://www.ptgindustries.com/fpd/fpd.htm has a picture of the machine.

My father working on this stuff in the 70's with a 1 kW CO2 laser, so I
suspect there is a mature technology somewhere.

Elliot