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Japanese / Re: Late night with Zeolaous and Poppa

« on: May 21, 2009, 03:39:40 AM »

mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaahaahha

ok you made me look

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Feature Requests / Re: 3DConnexion, 6 axis controllers, please add support

« on: May 21, 2009, 03:35:29 AM »

BUMP..

i would like this too

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Just got my Jog Dial!

« on: May 21, 2009, 03:18:06 AM »

ehhh ok .. so i love my jog dial but decided trying to work with two of them is just not practical...

so there i was looking round on my desk and my eye rested on my SpacePilot...

BOOOOOOOOING!!!!!

man.. i have to, have to, have to get that thing hooked up to my mill.. its perfect! it will even access up to 8 axis's for guys who need it..

anyone ever tried hooking this up to mach???

this is the one i have.. 

http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spacepilot.php

if it could operate the robotic arm on the space shuttle im pretty sure its just the ticket for mach???

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: May 21, 2009, 03:01:42 AM »

ok first bit of farting around with laser.. nicked this off my bandsaw.. mounted to my spindle.. battery powered with a switch.. as a jeweler Y is a constant so X is the only thing i need to drive to before a cut..

Tweakie.. thanks for your inspirations dude.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Which CAD/CAM software for newbie

« on: May 21, 2009, 12:25:28 AM »

rhino is also available at about 200 or so for student versions.. one of the best nurbs programs I have ever worked with.

packs a lot of punch for a small pricetag.. most my jewellery is designed in it.  rhinocam would close the deal if you were up for the extra 2K price...

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: May 20, 2009, 05:57:48 PM »

im on this train of thought5 because a friend has a hot air blower to do similar but it  is very hard to control accurately

images of hot air method

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: May 20, 2009, 05:43:50 PM »

ok read it... i think the ability to build and wire a shutter system at this point in the game is out of my league .. i have never cut anything besides wax and im not sure my spindle will handle continuous aluminium cutting either....

Im going to be frank with you here.. i see a completely different application for this and im chasing it for that...

lets say that this laser was way to powerfull for my intended needs.. lets say i was thinking about focusing to a  0.127mm (+-) spot at only maybe 70' celcius and running a finishign pass over my wax to just just surface melt the toolmarks away... fairly fast feed cuz we dont want to punch a hole thru the wax either, literally just melt the 0.127 spot at its very very least amount of time..  some large amount of experimentation with feeds will be needed and with laser temps etc.

think thats possible?

if so.. this will have a huge commercial application...  tool marks are the bane of jewellers existence... 

your thoughts?

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

« on: May 20, 2009, 05:20:26 PM »

last nights job.. 3 carat tanzanite surround by diamonds..

cut came good..

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: Screendesigner "machscreen"

« on: May 20, 2009, 03:48:07 PM »

i hate the way customers always change design parameters AFTER you already pathed a job... can you fix that?

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

« on: May 20, 2009, 03:41:20 PM »

lol