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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Gertrude Gets Some!

« on: September 27, 2009, 02:20:44 AM »

hehehe, mine is not interested at all in the wax one.. he wants it in metal.. little bugger, maybe i'll mill one in acrylic for him and spray paint it

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Gertrude Gets Some!

« on: September 26, 2009, 11:39:39 PM »

it was a double dare!

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Share Your GCode / Re: Profiling plastic sheet

« on: September 26, 2009, 05:25:11 PM »

Thanks Guys!

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Share Your GCode / Re: Profiling plastic sheet

« on: September 26, 2009, 12:59:27 AM »

wife will murder my butt if she knew I was posting home images here, but here ya go. think she might post on my facebook page,

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Melbourne-Australia/Digital-Jeweller/136490863976?ref=nf

in the stencil section too. feel free to join and become a fan!

bolster my numbers!

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Share Your GCode / Re: Profiling plastic sheet

« on: September 23, 2009, 05:53:16 AM »

mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaahaahahaha

the bathroom is still a WIP!

my hair is fixed tho

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Share Your GCode / Re: Profiling plastic sheet

« on: September 23, 2009, 04:05:42 AM »

ok, i honed a profile cutter even more into a ...  ummm 2.5 sided cutter 

works like a charm.

Wife is happy, painting her bathroom as we speak, and as we all know, a happy wife is a happy life, an unhappy wife is a bucket of strife!

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Windows 7

« on: September 22, 2009, 06:17:46 AM »

on my vista machines i get really bad driver tests, irrespective of the setup instructions, but bad parrallel hardware is possible too as they are both laptops.

i hate vista with a passion and im also looking forward from XP directly to Win7

hope all works well

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Visual mill vs Sprutcam

« on: September 20, 2009, 10:20:43 PM »

VisualMill is the best program i have worked with, in terms of surface finish, and i have worked with, ArtCam, DeskProto, Modela, RC, and quite few others not worth mentioning...

I work with its Rhino based variant called RhinoCam, and a great many cad packages out there that feature built in CAM are in fact sporting VisualMill as a plugin.

I am updating to RhinoCam2 in the next week or so and will be doing some free video tutorials for 3 and 4 axis jewellery applications using VM/RC2.

watch this space

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Share Your GCode / Re: Profiling plastic sheet

« on: September 20, 2009, 03:50:02 PM »

thansk for the tips guys, i think coolant is the answer, or a different brand/type of plastic sheet. bout this stuff from local $2 shop, its table place mats i think. dirt cheap, $2 for 6 of them, each one is 550mmx400mm

maybe too cheap

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Share Your GCode / Re: Profiling plastic sheet

« on: September 20, 2009, 04:07:59 AM »

i tried a profile cutter.. not so good.. but a 3 sided pyramid cutter worked ok. my spindle can only go down to 5000rpm which is what i suspect my problem i here.. i need to go slower or add coolant at the tip.

firebird did not work but the plain daisy thing was ok..