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

« on: August 22, 2010, 02:43:18 AM »

is there one?
wow??? never considered that? the longest path in this series is about 1.2million lines and the rest are saved out in a per index fashion?

not got to cut this yet, probably tommorow actually, hope i dont hit a snag?

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

« on: August 21, 2010, 11:47:33 PM »

wish me luck with this one... 25%bigger than the biggest rign i have ever cut, 2.7 million lines of code..

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: 3D Printing.

« on: August 12, 2010, 01:04:44 AM »

I am seriously considering a printer now. The level of work I am doing is continually getting more and more sophisticated and the "how" factor in planning milling strategies is becoming a $$ factor. I considered going 5th axis but the pathing software price for fluid 5th axis and the related PITA factor of tramming and keeping it trammed are simply not cost effective when i  only cut wax anyhow. If i cut directly to metal.. different story.

The biggest downfall printing has now for me as a jeweller is that its resolution is low and its surface finish is .. well.. retarded.. under a loupe it looks lie someone chucked up on the surface.The good surface finish stuff cannot be cast and the castable stuff is grainy. I hate technology.

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

« on: August 01, 2010, 05:49:58 PM »

cool!

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

« on: August 01, 2010, 05:49:16 PM »

for this job.. well, all i am going to say is thank goodness wifey is running the mill. good strategy girl.

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

« on: July 27, 2010, 04:08:36 PM »

and some vids on the pathing


Pathing the ring PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRnFOA1a7pU

Pathing the Ring PART2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5QVKt2i_SU

Regards
Chris Botha

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

« on: July 25, 2010, 10:11:58 PM »

wimmen.. MADE me cut it!

as for vids..

here ya go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLmb7MGgERI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpfXwMdwr-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yey25kCaahg

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

« on: July 25, 2010, 06:44:57 PM »

11: Time to decore that sucker


12: and get some sleep...

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

« on: July 24, 2010, 08:50:14 PM »

see i can do it myself too! 4 to 6 hour wait on rest of job will pot updates then


Was going ot do a tut on this pathing but I am having trouble with periodic crashed so decided to doa step by step pictorial instead.


1: Setup huge wax block


2: Check X old fashoined way


3: Run the roughing paths with a 3.17 EM





4: Cut the hole for Brant's arbor.


5: Start indexing path, this one includes all blockers in place and is low res at 0.05mm stepover.


6: Hide the side panel blocker and go in at 0.02 stepover



7: Cut the indexed taper ball areas at about 50 degrees





REPEAT 5 - 7 at A180 again.

8: Use paint to check that detail is ok before removing from mill.


9:Rotary phase1 , full cut at low res 0.05mm Blockers back in place.



10: which will be followed by three indexs at 290 - 0 - 70.




Keep fingers crossed rotary phase comes good, will edit and add pics after its done.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Zero an axis from G-Code...

« on: July 24, 2010, 08:27:13 AM »

Thanks