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LazyTurn / Inscribed circle, what am I missing?

« on: December 02, 2010, 07:58:01 AM »

From the definition in the manual, I expect the tool definition "Inscribed Circle" to be the radius of a circle that will completely envelop the tool. Or it stupid person terms for me, how big of a snow angle would the tool make if spun in a circle.

So using that definition, I created a tool in LazyTurn that is a 55 degree diamond tool that is 3/8" long on its longest axis. So I set the inscribed circle to 0.1875. Attached is a screen shot of the result. LazyTurn creates a diamond that is 3/8" on its short axis and about 0.8" on its long axis. There is no way that a circle of radius 0.1875 could inscribe the tool that LazyTurn created.

What am I doing wrong?

-Jim

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Feature Requests / Re: iPad app for Mach 3

« on: October 04, 2010, 09:03:09 PM »

How do you hook up your iPad to your computer then?

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Feature Requests / iPad app for Mach 3

« on: July 04, 2010, 11:42:05 AM »

It sure would be cool if Mach could be ported to iOS. My touch screen iPad in combination with the smoothstepper would be an amazing machine control device. It has the power and if you rely on the caching capabilities of the smoothstepper you don't need a real time OS.

The iPad has USB support, but a WiFi or Bluetooth smooth stepper would also be pretty.sweet.  But that's a request for another forum.
-Jim