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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Lithopane

« on: October 10, 2008, 03:10:31 AM »

A big thanks to Kent for a copy of his code. Such a wonderful white tiger.
I reduced the image to 1/2 size but even then it took over 8 hours to complete the 342,000 lines of code.
I have included images of the finished lithophane, the half way stage (after 4 hours) and how I amused myself in between doing other things on what will probably be one of our last summer days this year here in the UK.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: How to Occupy Your Spare Time

« on: October 10, 2008, 02:34:57 AM »

Brilliant work.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Newbie to forum, Pinnacle universal mill retrofit.

« on: October 07, 2008, 06:07:32 AM »

Nice work - my complements.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Lithopane

« on: October 07, 2008, 05:44:08 AM »

Hi Kent,

Brilliant tiger - Could you possibly share the GCode for this so that I could cut one ?.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Drill Quill

« on: October 07, 2008, 05:41:12 AM »

Any chance of a photo Tom ?

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: October 07, 2008, 05:38:48 AM »

While I still had a small piece of plywood left over I thought I would try this - they almost fit perfectly. (If I had a job I could be dangerous).

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: September 25, 2008, 11:55:49 AM »

Hi Dave,

Have you started drinking Guinness now ?.

Some of the profiles have been created using the online Gear template generator at http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html and some have been created using GearDXF from Forest Moon Productions at http://www.forestmoon.com/Software/GearDXF/. The tool radius offset function and subsequent GCode was created using CamBam at http://www.brusselsprout.org/CAMBAM/download.htm.

It's all free stuff just waiting for you to download.

Best regards.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: September 25, 2008, 08:17:37 AM »

A few more. Experimenting with different tooth forms and diametral pitches.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: September 24, 2008, 07:10:53 AM »

More wooden gears for wooden clocks.

These little beauties have been profiled in one pass from 3.5mm plywood. A bit furry when cut (the plywood always seems damp this time of the year) but they soon clean up.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: September 23, 2008, 09:09:54 AM »

Not strictly speaking Routing but more like Profiling. I thought you might like to see what happens when making wooden gears for wooden clocks and I get the tool lead-out in the wrong direction. As my old school reports used to say "Could do better".