On Thursday 23 July 2020 19:02:47 Chris Albertson wrote: > Gene, > > Better to just use a standard (replaceable at a reasonable cost) ball > mill and let your CAM software generate the toolpath. No math > involved.
Yes there is. I know very llittle about CAM so I'd have to write my own. And its an even bet that I could do it in 150 lines of code, or less. I'm a huge fan of LCNC's ability to do loops. Several years ago I needed to sharpen a 10" table saw blade. 90 lines of code, 3 days to run with a dremel hand cable clamped to my toy hf. Took 3 days to run and took maybe 5 thou off the face of each carbide tooth. That blade did all the cutting for the next 6 pieces of funiture I built before it left the first burn on some cherry. Cleaned it off with some easy off oven cleaner and used it another 2 years includung cutting up the 1/8" alu panel out of the side of a wrecked UPS van to make the box the GO704's electronics is in. Its got another $400 worth of 1x12 mahogany to cut before I'll call it finished. Or I may see if I can rig the dremel to the GO704 and sharpen it again. Depends on how much of me is left then. > If I am making gears I'd not want to have to depend on a steady supply > of hen's teeth. If your part depends on one-off tooling you might > never be able to make another part or what if the tool breaks when you > are halfway done? All to be considered. The ball nose and some good code sounds like the better choice. > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 4:27 AM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > my driving impetus to but a motor on this BS-1. But I'd need help > > with the math using a ball nosed tool, or a flat faced with a corner > > and very small steps radius. Otherwise I suspect one would have to > > buy a tool grinder too, and make ones own tools. I have spent > > considerable time looking for shaped tools/mills for such gear > > cutting and either didn't recognize it from the description or came > > up empty. Stay safe and well Chris. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
