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General Mach Discussion / Re: connecting ground from bob to machine for touch plate?

« on: September 19, 2016, 03:26:12 AM »

thanks for your help, i will try it out today.
michael

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General Mach Discussion / connecting ground from bob to machine for touch plate?

« on: September 18, 2016, 04:16:35 AM »

hi all,

i just ordered the 2010 screen set and i want to add a touch plate on my machine.

since i dont want to clip the ground cable with a clamp to the router bit, is it safe to connect the ground from the BOB to the machine ( somewhere on the steel?)

thanks,
neptunier

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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: Thank you for looking at my works on YouTube.

« on: May 28, 2016, 02:35:51 AM »

i love this japanese craftsmenship and vision, really inspiring. lots of respect. the flying horse with the sun smiling at top, the cat turning to the rising ones, so much lyric in it. wonderful.

neptunier

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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: Thank you for looking at my works on YouTube.

« on: May 26, 2016, 09:43:21 AM »

very sweet work

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General Mach Discussion / Re: digitizing in mach3 with a usb camera

« on: May 24, 2016, 11:41:30 AM »

thanks, that was what i was looking for.

i jog to the points, and in the editor i edit the textfile that i can import the points as pointcloud into rhino. i switch a "g1 x0 y0 z0" into "0,0,0" and then i have my points. i dont need a gcode output.

doing a photo might be possible too but i guess you have to be centred over the paper template which can be difficult. also i dont know about the lens in the camera whether ist will distort the template.

thanks again,
neptunier

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General Mach Discussion / digitizing in mach3 with a usb camera

« on: May 24, 2016, 08:43:06 AM »

hi all,

i am looking for an easy way to digitize perimeters from paper templates. perimeter digitizing with probe it does not work, since the paper is too flat.

i thought one solution would be to use an usb camera and manually drive to some of the points of the paper template perimeter and save them in a text file. openening that in rhino and makeing a curve out of these points should work for me, i dont need high accuracy.

does someone now a script that will save the position to a text file? so the workflow would be :
setting zero point x and y
move to a position with jog control
save that point to a the textfile
go to next point
save it

and so on.

if someone has better ideas to solve that problem please let me know.

thanks,
neptunier