CNC Glass Scoring Machine Anyone?
Hi folks -
Joined the forum here a day or so ago and have not gotten much work done at my desk since :D
Has anyone come across a version of these mdf cnc machines that have been set up for scoring glass? My fiance and I are into stained glass projects lately and I was thinking, that a gadget that would be able to score the lines from a pattern would be slick. The catch would be that the scoring head would have to remain tangential to the curve and although I see that the mach software supports this, I have not seen anyone that has come up with a motorized head to swivel the cutter.
Anyway, if anyone knows where I might go to see some ideas/options, that would be great.
Cheers,
Lewis
Would a tangential arrangement really be necessary?
In the case of a knife, which has a certain directionality, I can see it, but for a diamond point which can cut in any direction it seems like something that wouldn't be needed. More useful, I'd think, would be a spring-loaded head to hold the scoring tool, so it wouldn't hit the glass too hard on the descent, and could accomodate slight variations in glass thickness. Most of us here could probably make something like that in our shops, but here's something that might work off the shelf: http://www.2linc.com/glass_engraving.htm
Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com