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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) => Topic started by: jluisrey on March 31, 2008, 06:45:06 AM
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A sample of helical gear cut on PVC with Mach3:
(http://www.saand.es/joseyana/temp/helical_gear_cutting.jpg)
Regards,
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Hi jluisrey,
Great gear! How many axis does this process require,and
how deep of a cut can you take on each pass?
Also..Do you write your own code or what program
do you use to generate it?
Thanks,
Glenn ;)
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Hello Glenn,
3 Axis are used, X,Z,A, and the deep was 3mm, one pass cut (the material is PVC),
I write a small program and a excel sheet to generate gcode for gear, need tool angle, number of toochs, space bettwen tooch, and desired angle,
Regards,
Rey
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I would be interested to see the process of generating the gcode.
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Hello,
Here you have the excell sheet and the program to generate the gcode, I will try to do a Mach3 wizard, but I don't know were to start ;O)
http://www.saand.es/joseyana/temp/gcode_helgears.zip
Regards
Rey
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very cool
A axis?
and was wondering if you could paste the Gcode in a txt file
Thanks in advance :)