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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) => Topic started by: stevehuck on September 07, 2009, 11:53:44 AM

Title: My first project
Post by: stevehuck on September 07, 2009, 11:53:44 AM: Aint much but it did give me a reason to fire up the mill. It's a sort of variation on the turners cube. It is 2 inches square. It is the first thing that i ever tried to make using Lcam and mach 3. She aint perfect, but i'll keep it.
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: Dan13 on September 07, 2009, 01:40:13 PM: Nice work and photos! Not bad at all for a first part!!! I wish my first part had been something as successful and beautiful.

How long did it take you (machining, gcode generating, CAM)?

Daniel
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: stevehuck on September 07, 2009, 03:11:50 PM: Thanks Dan

The Gcode took about 4-5 hours because i had no idea how to use Lcam. Then i spent about 3-4 days trying to get the pocket to climb mill. The climb milling thing never happened and i cut the part anyway. I think it was about 20 minutes a side.

I should post the G code incase somebody wants to make one.
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: RICH on September 07, 2009, 06:16:00 PM: Hey Steve,
Nice job. That's what i call progress. ;)
RICH
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: BluePinnacle on September 07, 2009, 06:33:36 PM: ;D

Very nice! well done, that's some good careful work. Stick at the coding, it's the key to success in here. it's better than my first creation, it was a chunk of angle with a carbide cutter snapped off in the top. Didn't keep it, lol.
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: Sam on September 07, 2009, 06:59:41 PM: Wow, that's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing pics. We thrive on pics around here. One of my first projects was a busted safety glass in the door of a lathe. I didn't post any pics of it, as it wasn't cool looking like yours. Anybody could do it with no practice at all. :)
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on September 09, 2009, 02:51:57 AM: Nice work Steve.

Tweakie.
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: budman68 on September 09, 2009, 05:07:10 AM: Very slick first piece you have there, Steve. :)

Thanks for sharing-
Dave
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: marcel beaudry on September 17, 2009, 10:50:16 AM: Very nice

Marcell Beaudry
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: Chris.Botha on September 19, 2009, 07:18:10 AM: real nice man! wish my mill could cut metal
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: stevehuck on September 20, 2009, 09:18:45 AM: Thanks for all the kind words. I had a major hard drive failure and the code was lost. Thank god the code for the mini air cleaner made it to the backup drive.

Cheers!

Steve
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: Chaoticone on September 20, 2009, 04:15:53 PM: That's great Steve. Cute as a speckeled pup. :)

Brett
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: stevehuck on May 26, 2010, 09:51:05 PM: Something about these cubes. I can't get them out of my head.
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: Dan13 on May 27, 2010, 01:34:56 AM: A couple more posts with these and I will get the bug myself :D

Nice job, Steve.

Daniel
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: BobWarfield on May 27, 2010, 12:11:54 PM: Quote from: stevehuck on May 26, 2010, 09:51:05 PM
Something about these cubes. I can't get them out of my head.

They are mesmerizing, eh?

I showed mine (the avatar at left) to my wife and she has kept it on our Kitchen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Miller) island as a kind of centerpiece, since. She wants a small highly polished one on a chain as a pendant, so I'll be looking into that as her birthday gets closer.

Cheers,

BW
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on May 27, 2010, 01:07:40 PM: Nice variants on the theme you have made there Steve.

Marcel started me off on this cube thing and I thought I could make just one, but once friends see it - they want one as well. So just keep making more than you need Steve. ;D

Tweakie.

(http://www.cooperman.talktalk.net/files/19_files/image471.jpg)
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: Blackjeff on December 10, 2020, 05:51:40 PM: How can I get the g code for that?
Title: Re: My first project
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on December 11, 2020, 01:05:24 AM: Quote from: Blackjeff on December 10, 2020, 05:51:40 PM
How can I get the g code for that?

It is simple enough to create the Gcode yourself. I used the Mach3 Pocket Wizard and the Gcode is just a few lines, repeated for each side of the cube. The first 3 pictures in this thread illustrate a basic cube https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=9755.msg59684#msg59684

Once you have mastered the techinque then you can start to become adventerious.

Tweakie.