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

« on: May 19, 2009, 09:35:49 PM »

this one just finished..  easy to clean up.. very simple job.

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

« on: May 19, 2009, 08:58:11 PM »

buggered if i know what exchange rate is today from AU to US lol

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

« on: May 19, 2009, 08:57:06 PM »

thanks guys...

i charge design time at $30AU p/h and machine time at $35AU p/h, so from my side the cost on that gold 8 claw job would be about $160AU to the trade then the metal costs $29AU per gram and weighs in at about 7 grammes so $203AU  plus about $10AU casting fee...


all up for my employer this works out to about $373AU COST.. i add a slice for myself where i can, if i can.. depends on each job at its own merit.. some rings like that 8 claw actually only take about 5 minutes to design and jobs like the bangle for example took 2 hours to design.

what you loose on the roundabout you find at the swings...

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

« on: May 19, 2009, 05:21:37 PM »

got these back .. on my plate for today.. let me get stuck into it.

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

« on: May 19, 2009, 04:52:47 PM »

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

« on: May 19, 2009, 04:52:05 PM »

ok.. amazing what coffee can do for the body...


i got this back from the casters yesterday and assembled. the stones to be set are done off site as well.. diamonds i usually set myself.. this hodgepodge of semiprecious stuff i wont touch...

was sprue'd from inside in two halfs of course as per arrows.

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

« on: May 19, 2009, 03:49:20 PM »

ok 6AM .. wow look at those typos!!!!


hehehe

will post info in a bit.. time for daily 1 hr commute in Melbourne traffic!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 simulation

« on: May 19, 2009, 03:48:14 PM »

yes.  i test all my programs and screens on my pc inside before i transfer outside to my mill pc.

not having your motor tuning etc setup properly will give your innacurate estimated runtimes and simulation speeds.and so forth, i would find someone running the same hardware as yourself with the same controller and use his xml file in your install.

I test clients files (and mine) like this when they crash their hardware. easier to see visually where something is going wrong that to pour through 100 000 lines of code.

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

« on: May 19, 2009, 12:29:29 PM »

thanks

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

« on: May 19, 2009, 12:28:05 PM »

2 AM.. cant sleep

That job has been cast ans assembled already.. i dont cast myself, it goes to a casting company, they attach a sprue dependant to where it will placed on their tree of castings and according th emethod which will give them best flow of metal at the time.

i will upload images oc complete stuff from work in a few hours and hgilight where the sprue was