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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 15, 2010, 10:42:20 PM »

With Illustrator, I have no idea. I have never made anything with Illustrator. Maybe someone else can chime in on that one. Pretty much any cad/cam package will do the trick. I've never used lazycam, but it would probably do just fine.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Our 2440 x 1220mm CnC Router Builds

« on: August 15, 2010, 09:18:15 AM »

Nice! Thanks for taking the time to share with us.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 15, 2010, 09:05:49 AM »

No problem Tweakie. If we didn't enjoy helping out when we can, we wouldn't be here.
Out of curiosity, what software are you using that outputs everything in segments? Arcs sure do make for a cleaner file, cleaner cut, and a happier machine.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 14, 2010, 01:13:12 PM »

You can use Gmax with CNC toolkit to achieve this.
http://www.cnc-toolkit.com/
All of it is free, but I'm sure Rab Gordon would enjoy a thanks.

Don't suppose you could perform your magic on this foot or is that too much to ask ?

I'll do ya one better. I'll make you one using arcs instead of the jagged lines.   You might have to scale it to fit your needs.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 14, 2010, 09:21:38 AM »

It may not be lack of resolution, rather lack of being a good circle. It could be both, but you wont know until you can get a proper circle. I tried to make one similar to the one you posted. Circle center is 0,0.  You can try it and see what happens if you like. If its still bad, I can bump up the resolution (and file length, of course) to test. Make sure you look at the code and make any changes you need before running.

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

« on: August 14, 2010, 09:03:14 AM »

Yeah, pics are like food, and were always starving! Awesome job. LOVE it!!

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 14, 2010, 12:55:43 AM »

Hmmmm, maybe I'm missing the real question your asking. I interpreted it to be... "why does part 1 not look like part 2?"
Upon loading up the code for part 1, and zooming in, its clear that it is not a circle made up of equal length lines. When I think of a faceted circle, or arc, I think of an octagon or hexagon, or whatever. Equal length lines with a consistent angle between the lines. I think if the first circle had been faceted uniformly, and to a high enough resolution (or subdivision), it would have matched the second one in appearance. As it is now, the striations are there because, well...there programmed in.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: August 13, 2010, 08:50:22 AM »

If I had to take a guess at it, I would say that it's because the first piece is not really that circular. If you zoom in on the circle, it looks like a drunk person on the road. It weaves left and right. At the cutting speeds that your using, I doubt that accell/decell, or anything-other than lack of resolution-would be the factor (that is, of course, with a sober circle).

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Dixie Duke - A machine in the making.

« on: August 09, 2010, 06:01:55 PM »

Yep, If I could have 2 whole weeks to work on nothing but Dixie, it might be possible. Unfortunately, I don't see "Dixie chips" (hey, that's got a nice ring to it ) in my 2 week future.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: August 09, 2010, 05:55:23 PM »

Looks like your gonna have a great machine when you git'er all done, Joel.