On Thursday 12 November 2020 16:39:19 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > A Google for get dimensions from stl file shows there's many ways to > do that. On Thursday, November 12, 2020, 11:35:23 AM MST, Gene Heskett > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday 12 November 2020 12:38:19 John Dammeyer wrote: > > Mill it out of aluminium. Counter bores for the screws. Total time > > spent will be way less than 3D printing it. There are places for 3D > > printing. I use it all the time. But it's easy to get into that > > place where when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. > > John > > How do I make that .stl into gcode to drive one of my mills? Do we > have such a critter? > > And I expect to have a similar problem with the full sized lid. The > other half of that same bearing is half buried it it, same problem. > > I'll have to print both and take measurements to write the gcode I > guess since the .stl doesn't AFAIK have a size, that is up to the > printer. I've 1/8" plate I can make both parts out of.
But at 93% done its already 6.6mm thick, looks like I'll have to waste quite a bit of 1/2" plate, 1/4" won't quite do it. One of Jackie Gleason's "revoltin developments". But, I do have the 1/2" plate. I'd shrink it to 1/4", but don't have any of that. 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
