Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread jeremy youngs
THANK YOU and great work On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Rudy du Preez wrote: > Thanks for all the interest. > > I used Mastercam at a friend of mine. The impeller CAD model was fetched > somewhere from the Internet. I wrote my own post processor in Delphi - it > reads the NCI file that Master

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread Rudy du Preez
Thanks for all the interest. I used Mastercam at a friend of mine. The impeller CAD model was fetched somewhere from the Internet. I wrote my own post processor in Delphi - it reads the NCI file that Mastercam creates. This file has the tip and tail 3D coordinates of the tool in the toolpath in wo

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread Dave
Any idea what they want for that software? Dave On 4/14/2013 1:56 PM, Tomaz T. wrote: >> Is that the NX Cam from Siemens? >> >> > Yep > http://youtu.be/opxo2KxRLDw?t=40s > -- > P

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread Tomaz T .
> > Is that the NX Cam from Siemens? > Yep http://youtu.be/opxo2KxRLDw?t=40s -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data.

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread Dave
Is that the NX Cam from Siemens? Dave On 4/14/2013 10:55 AM, Andrew wrote: > 2013/4/14 Tomaz T. > > >> rotary head is produced by this guy, I only reinforced it for my needs... >> http://www.doughtydrive.com/ >> >> Oh, I've seen those heads on the net. Just wonder what's inside - some >>

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread Tomaz T .
> > > rotary head is produced by this guy, I only reinforced it for my needs... > > http://www.doughtydrive.com/ > > > > Oh, I've seen those heads on the net. Just wonder what's inside - some > belts or kind of harmonic reducer? > Combination of belt and spur gear stage reduction, and it gives you

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-14 Thread jeremy youngs
i used 1600 oz in steppers pn my mill and am looking for more but still need ballscrews and i want to try some way friction reduction. i get 60 ipm wuth a @200 lb table, i havent powered the knee yet just the spindle head i will need ballscrew for the z and am planning to coumterbalace the knee . m

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread Andrew
2013/4/14 Tomaz T. > rotary head is produced by this guy, I only reinforced it for my needs... > http://www.doughtydrive.com/ > > Oh, I've seen those heads on the net. Just wonder what's inside - some belts or kind of harmonic reducer? > Postprocessor is slightly modified one of the "native" 5a

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread Tomaz T .
rotary head is produced by this guy, I only reinforced it for my needs... http://www.doughtydrive.com/ Postprocessor is slightly modified one of the "native" 5axis post in NX. Topic about execution speed is named "Poor CV" >> > > Great! But the rotary spindle is not seen well, I'd like to loo

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread Andrew
2013/4/14 Tomaz T. > Here is also my test of running heavy 5axis code on linuxcnc. > Great! But the rotary spindle is not seen well, I'd like to look at the design. > Code was generated by NX. > Which postprocessor was used? > At 1 min it shows up embedded screen of linuxcnc ruining it. > >

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread dave
On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 11:55 +, Tomaz T. wrote: > Here is also my test of running heavy 5axis code on linuxcnc. > Code was generated by NX. > > At 1 min it shows up embedded screen of linuxcnc ruining it. > > I tried also final passes, but executing it was way to slow... anyway, this > issue

Re: [Emc-users] Youtube 5axis cutting an impeller

2013-04-14 Thread Tomaz T .
Here is also my test of running heavy 5axis code on linuxcnc.  Code was generated by NX. At 1 min it shows up embedded screen of linuxcnc ruining it. I tried also final passes, but executing it was way to slow... anyway, this issue is already discussed in other topic. http://www.youtube.com/wat

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-14 Thread andy pugh
On 14 April 2013 11:20, Lars Andersson wrote: > http://forumbilder.se/CDVO4/fras > > It has no power feed whatsoever but is not much worn and feels very > sound. It is meant to be converted to LinuxCNC as a hobby project. > I have not made anything this big before, wondering what drive torque on

Re: [Emc-users] Closed loop stepping system

2013-04-14 Thread Lars Andersson
> On 13 April 2013 23:32, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Old but properly made: > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Harrison-Milling-Machine-Vertical-attachment-and-clutch-/121092566051 > Gentlemen, I recently bought a machine similar to that one, at scrap value. The rubber bellows for the knee screw is replac