06-16-2014, 09:35 AM
Darren,
I started working on the part you need this weekend. Nothing but fits trying to get my Alliant/Prototrak to follow a programmed path. If this thing was a simple G-code CNC, I would have been done with the profile (external periphery shape) in 10 minutes. Four hours of messing around, back & forth to my home PC where I had downloaded the CAD software you linked to, and still getting error messages.
Not to worry, I do NOT give up easily! I'll be back at it tonight, determined to get this thing made. It's going to be a number of different setups, and the one part I'm not sure I can replicate is the contoured radii around the 16mm bore. Wish I had 3-axis CNC for that! Corner rounding cutters don't really fit, so I may be doing a lot of hand grinding and compromised shape machining.
I started working on the part you need this weekend. Nothing but fits trying to get my Alliant/Prototrak to follow a programmed path. If this thing was a simple G-code CNC, I would have been done with the profile (external periphery shape) in 10 minutes. Four hours of messing around, back & forth to my home PC where I had downloaded the CAD software you linked to, and still getting error messages.
Not to worry, I do NOT give up easily! I'll be back at it tonight, determined to get this thing made. It's going to be a number of different setups, and the one part I'm not sure I can replicate is the contoured radii around the 16mm bore. Wish I had 3-axis CNC for that! Corner rounding cutters don't really fit, so I may be doing a lot of hand grinding and compromised shape machining.