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

« on: May 11, 2009, 06:19:56 AM »

urgh.............


somedays....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8J8knrsGgs

looks good???  sure does.. cut perfectly.. pity bout the air bubble in the wax which is now a hole in my surface... look out for a nice round hole in the vid...

the best laid plans of man and mouse.....


cut again!

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

« on: May 11, 2009, 05:54:43 AM »

here is Gertrude getting some on youtube!

cutting a Celtic Knot ring as pictured below


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aikPg7wDrQ

hope that works

will try post images/vid of finished ring when it off her soon

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General Mach Discussion / Re: hole macro help please :)

« on: May 11, 2009, 02:36:44 AM »

thanks man thats kinda what i was hoping..

been a while since i coded too.. think Pascal/Fortran/C on a 4.77mhz pc/xt..  so long ago.. before i had a beer gut.. and guilt..

lol.. actually i learned to machine code on a commodore vic20..  man im old....

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Made some bits for this on my mill and lathe

« on: May 10, 2009, 05:38:52 PM »

real nice work.. and umm.. if that was my wall.. i would be moving... real fast

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

« on: May 10, 2009, 03:44:45 PM »

thanks guys.. i have only been machining for just under a year now and only for a month with a decent mill, i could not achieve that kind of accuracy with my roland.

http://www.digital-jeweller.com/  is my website and no i dont use artcam i use Rhino primarily

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General Mach Discussion / Re: hole macro help please :)

« on: May 10, 2009, 03:42:17 PM »

thanks man.. gave it a whirl and got syntax error..




some of the code is huge!  i will have to brush up a bit or manually load code for now.. occurs to me it should be easir to insert a section of gcode into a macro?

thanks for all the help man

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General Mach Discussion / Re: hole macro help please :)

« on: May 10, 2009, 07:08:08 AM »

Code("G0X0Y0XZ2")

ok so in my case i have a whole swag of code happening .. so i can do this??

code ("
G17 G21 G40 G54 G64 G90
M03
G00 Z4.5850
X0.0000 Y0.0000
G01 Z0.0250 F300.0
Z0.0000 F600.0
X0.9116 Y1.0778 Z-3.0000
X0.8753 Y1.1079
X0.8743 Y1.1088 Z0.0000
etc
etc
etc
etc
Z0.0250
G00 Z4.5850
G00 Y0.0000
M05
M30
")


or

do i need to edit in the

code (" ")
section on each line of code?

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General Mach Discussion / hole macro help please :)

« on: May 10, 2009, 05:41:26 AM »

Hi guys..

This may seem a simple task to the guru's here but after playing around with mach for a while i have to admit defeat (ie: i reached the threshold where i stop being obstinate and ask for help instead)

i have a repetitive task that need to happen for virtually every ring i cut. so i have the gcode saved on my desktop for it.. it simply drills a  hole (6mm hole with 3.17mm endmill)  in the middle of a hub in the centre of a ring to allow me to pick it up 90' to a finishing pass on my 4th axis.. i have been playing with MachScreen for tweaking my mach interface and i was thinking it would be cool to be able to add a button that would simply drill this hole for me. the example attatched is round but i hve a variety of hubs so i was hoping to add another screen to mach and have a few different hub buttons.. once i figure out how to add one the rest will be easy.. i hope

some clues to get me going in the right direction?

posting images and the gcode as an example.



Thanks in advance

Chris


[edit] aded rhino hub to help this post make more sense.. i hope

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: Screendesigner "machscreen"

« on: May 08, 2009, 04:02:14 PM »

Klaus, thank you for your work. I have no idea about coding but in less than one day on this forum i have customized my mach screens to better suite my needs, and i am currently setting up video feed using your plugin to aid my tip2tip touchoffs.

you adhere to KISS principal and i had 0 learning curve using your designer.


well done and keep it up

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

« on: May 08, 2009, 03:31:37 PM »

wow!

really great work...  i have to try that now.  i have a watchmakers lathe out back and all i ever use it for is surfacing wax tubes....