Hello everyone, I have written some software to generate gcode to cut patterns on flat surfaces. Now I want to extend this to curved surfaces. I restrict myself to surfaces with rotational symmetry around the z axis as I want to decorate turned wooden items. (I have a stepper attached to the headstock of my wood lathe and an inexpensive xy table on the lathe bed. The table x acts as radial movement from centre outwards. The table y is actually connected as z giving positive depth movement towards the lathe headstock which rotates as a big rotary table as the A axis. I have a proxxon milling head mounted on the table at centre height, All steppers run under emc2) I have nearly finished the program that compensates for the surface when generating gcode and have ability to specify mathematically simple surfaces whose radial component is a collection of piecewise linear segments. Whew!!!
Finally to the question. I have nearly finished building a simple probe and wish to use it to perform radial scans of a pre-turned wooden surface and produce a file I can import into my software. Unfortunately I haven't the faintest clue how to do this. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. Thanks Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
