Hi All,
I'm Chris Lusby Taylor, from Newbury, Berkshire, England. I'm trying to start a business making sundials. Not your regular sundials but ones I've invented that do special tricks. Tricks such as having minute "hands", showing British Summer Time in the summer, GMT in the winter, ...
Anyway, this involves some machining and lots of engraving of scales. So I've got a CNC lathe (not using Mach), a small milling machine (not CNC), an old Alexander pantographic engraver (not CNC, yet...) and a large home-made 3 axis CNC engraving table. This does use Mach3.
I'm thinking us adding leadscrews to drive the pantographic arms of the Alexander, and using Formula Axis Correction to map XYZ to the leadscrew values needed, but I don't really need that machine at all, now, I think.
Some of my dials are cylindrical, and I'm planning to use Formula Axis Correction to engrave them, too, using 2-D engraving gcode.
Anyone else making sundials?
Chris