Hot wire knives need not have all the fancy electronics. I do a merit
badge course every winter with the local council's STEM U. One of the
projects I have them construct a "cooler" out of the blue construction foam
insulation board using glue/tape/other means to assemble pieces of cut
foam. Bef
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 03:13:07 Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 04.04.17 12:29, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 April 2017 06:04:50 Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > > On 04.04.17 05:00, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > Those scraps of that blueish foam have all been binned or used years
> > ago. An
On 04.04.17 12:29, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 April 2017 06:04:50 Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> > On 04.04.17 05:00, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Those scraps of that blueish foam have all been binned or used years ago.
> And Lowes no longer carries that same board in 2" R22 thickness. The
> cu
: Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 13:54
An: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Betreff: Re: [Emc-users] Hot wire foam cutter
On 7 October 2011 09:34, Peter Georgi
wrote:
> I think that the set speed is for the X/Y axis
and the U/V axis try
> to follow the X/Y axis to be at the same time in
place when t
On 7 October 2011 14:55, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
> Do You mean that G17.1 will not work??? That should select UV plane
> and let do arcs.
Not according to
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#sub:G2,-G3:-Arc
> Is there _any_ solution for that?
If the CAM can convert arcs to short
2011/10/7 andy pugh :
> On 7 October 2011 09:34, Peter Georgi wrote:
>
> There is no easy solution to this, as EMC2 has no way to know how your
> UV relate to your XY. (this is also why you can't do arcs in UV space)
Do You mean that G17.1 will not work??? That should select UV plane
and let do a
On 7 October 2011 09:34, Peter Georgi wrote:
> I think that the set speed is for the X/Y
> axis and the U/V axis try to follow the X/Y axis
> to be at the same time in place when the X/Y axis
> reache their position.
Yes, unfortunately this is how it works.
There is no easy solution to this, as
Hi everybody,
As mentioned in an earlier mail, I'm using EMC for
my faom cutting machine. I mainly cut wing panels
for model air planes, which have quite often a
tapered layout. The Axes of the machine are XY and
UV. In the G-code file the speed is set to e.g.
100mm/min. Higher speeds are not suit
