Prep HE have their shows up now - and spotted this lovely. Cut on our Speedy 500 makes use of one sheet of polypropoline - no waste or nothin.
Hope you can make out the above image - looks real nice :)
Kudos to
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Clock make timely arrival
New range of wall clocks are hitting the lasers - based on simple arrays and lots of trimming in CAD!
Currently fabbed in card - but one day when I have some money i'll make them in actual acrylic.
Closet modeller
It's more accepted to be gay than be a geek.
Will the gingerneer hops on to Speedy 500 whilst no one is looking to create carriges for his N gage train set.
Will the gingerneer hops on to Speedy 500 whilst no one is looking to create carriges for his N gage train set.
Rhino CAM
Our pre dawn of existance CAM application is about 50% good - it is very unforgving on even the most well built CAD models.
Anyway - I delved into Rhino CAM - a plug in for Rhino 4 and offer a free demo on their webiste. I fed it a file that has been causing Excalibur to stall for around 33 hours only to let us down again and again and crash. To my suprise it took about 30 seconds for Rhino CAM to spit out a tool path - i'll bee damned.
Unfortuantely without the right post processor its unusabable on our machine. Maybe I can faf with the Post output settings but who wants to do that on a sunny day?
Anyway, have a couple of images to feast your eyes on!
Horizonal roughing - tool path generated very quickly - but i'm sure there must be a way to select a more material friendly region...
Horizontal finishing if I remember correctly. pretty fine stepover of only 10% of tool - all the stages are pretty strait forward.
And lastly, the output G code.
Anyway - I delved into Rhino CAM - a plug in for Rhino 4 and offer a free demo on their webiste. I fed it a file that has been causing Excalibur to stall for around 33 hours only to let us down again and again and crash. To my suprise it took about 30 seconds for Rhino CAM to spit out a tool path - i'll bee damned.
Unfortuantely without the right post processor its unusabable on our machine. Maybe I can faf with the Post output settings but who wants to do that on a sunny day?
Anyway, have a couple of images to feast your eyes on!
Horizonal roughing - tool path generated very quickly - but i'm sure there must be a way to select a more material friendly region...
Horizontal finishing if I remember correctly. pretty fine stepover of only 10% of tool - all the stages are pretty strait forward.
And lastly, the output G code.
Digital Terrain Modeling
Using Digimap and Rhino 3D, Bournemouth Chine was milled from Birch ply.
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The model is used as reference for Nathen's 3rd year BA Hons Architecture project, the rejuvination of a bridge.
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The model is used as reference for Nathen's 3rd year BA Hons Architecture project, the rejuvination of a bridge.
Speedy 500 new honeycomb table
OK, pease can we stop moaning about the state of the bed on our speedy 500 - the new replacement has arrived!
Word of warning however - the damn thing cost £2500!! Can you believe that?! Me neither - anyone caught abusing the thing will be banned forevar!1!!1!
In all seriousness however please do look after it the last one lead a short life and there is no reason why this should either.
Peace out - ed
Word of warning however - the damn thing cost £2500!! Can you believe that?! Me neither - anyone caught abusing the thing will be banned forevar!1!!1!
In all seriousness however please do look after it the last one lead a short life and there is no reason why this should either.
Peace out - ed
Two sided milling appears to be working!
My forray into milling two sides of the same model seems to be paying off - whilst learning all the way.
Some say i'm messing about making my own model but.. well ok maybe i am.
Here's a pic to show the progress...
Mde from only 3 peices!
Some say i'm messing about making my own model but.. well ok maybe i am.
Here's a pic to show the progress...
Mde from only 3 peices!
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