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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) => Topic started by: WoodenWheeledClock on October 09, 2008, 11:38:39 AM
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On the subject of Show and Tell. Here is what I do. I design and build wooden wheeled clocks. My setup is shown in Pic 326. The computer is a used PC with a chip that runs at 1.6 GHz. The driver board is a Hobby CNC with 305 oz steppers. The table is from WidgitMaster and is the Midi model which has a working area of about 8 inches by 8.5 inches. I have successfully cut gears as small as 1/4 (pic 690) of an inch up to 8 inches in diameter. The finished product is shown in pic 916 and 918. The software to do all this is:
1. Involute / Cyclodial gear designer from http://www.realhamradio.com/gearhome.htm
2. TurboCAD for general drawings http://www.turbocad.com/TurboCAD/TurboCADforMac/tabid/556/Default.aspx
3. R2V for jpg to vector conversion http://www.mr-soft.net/
4. Lazy CAM for DFX to GCode
5. Mach 3 to make it all work
With this fleet of software I have managed to produce some really great projects and also a big big box of rejects that start the fire in the fireplace really well.
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Absolutely fantastic, thanks for sharing- :)
Dave
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Thanks Budman, Opps never mind Bud ... I mean thanks WoodenWheeledClock Gears look good. thanks for the links also
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This is great. :)
Brett
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Brilliant work.