Greetings all; What do we have that can convert a .stl file into gcode for a mill or a lathe?
I think I have the 4 internal pieces ready to install in some sort of a housing, so I ordered a couple hacksaw blades for my bandsaw and bought some 2" thick alu bar for the output side of this thing. I have some 1" that will make the input half of the housing, make it up square so I'll have room for corner bolts to mount it with. But with the need for 2 bearings on the output, seperated by enough space to be rigid, I'll do it from 2" stock. But I think I'd like to make 2, one small enough to drive with a nema 17. But I'll need to make a metal armature for that because these 85 oz 17's I have run pretty hot. Too hot for plastic bearing carriers. So far I haven't stumbled over a 3 phase nema 17, yet. But I keep looking. Now that I have at least a Mr so and so familiarity with openscad, no means an expert, I think I'd like to see about drawing the housing parts up in openscad, and possibly generating some gcode from its .stl output. Can pycam do 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
