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    Re: DIY Clamping Methods?

    Found this on youtube..

    Best of both worlds: vacuum and t-track

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hKCy8TkUJo
  2. Re: Porter Cable 7518 Router Motor Upgrade Awsome!! Spindle Lock

    Brilliant.

    The mess monsters will be upset that its no fun to hide the router wrenches any more.
  3. Re: Precision Plasma Patriot 4x8 CNC plasma table rotary axis pneu scriber powermax65

    This is for sale for $15,000.
  4. Precision Plasma Patriot 4x8 CNC plasma table rotary axis pneu scriber powermax65

    This auction is for a Precision Plasma Patriot 4x8 CNC plasma cutting table with a rotary axis and a pneumatic scriber and a Hypertherm powermax 65 with a machine torch. The machine has about...
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    Re: ShopDroid [custom sized]

    Thank you Ger.

    As always, you are the gentleman.
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    Re: Cambam Pre-amble and Post-amble

    Citizen is correct on both counts [one-time and many-times].

    Often by writing directly in the G-code file, a user gets a better sense of G-code and where to insert headers and footers.

    I...
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    Re: ShopDroid [custom sized]

    WOW..has it really been two-years since I posted anything.

    Of course, not being near my shop for two-years or getting Droid set-up may be the answer.

    I have forgotten so much the safest way to...
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    Re: Searching a cad software for my plasma machine

    Try SketchUp for regular geometry..squares, circles, arcs, polygons. The free version does all you will need.

    For trick stuff use inksacpe. Lots of youtube videos on the inkscape/sheetcam...
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    Re: Cambam Pre-amble and Post-amble

    A real easy way is to just write in G0 X0 Y0 after the G0 Z height command at the beginning and end of the G-code program that come from CAMBAM.
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    Digital-Joints-poster-visual-reference

    Found this on the Instrucables web site..though it may be of interest those here.



    50 Digital Joints: poster visual reference
  11. Thread: Vac System

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    Re: Vac System

    Houston..we have a problem

    must be those 27 scripts cnczone try to run every time I sign on...alas
  12. Thread: Vac System

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    Re: Vac System

    Try this for simple inexpensive vacuum hold down

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOrkvPF0pro

    url will not show up

    search for this:

    How to Make a Vacuum Table for your CNC Router
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    Re: Error in software startup

    Look at this:

    https://support.microsoft.com/kb/935434
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    Re: Newbie needing help with a DXF 3D Drawing

    Dean is correct about the plane slicing along X, Y, or Z

    These functions obtain polylines from a 3D object by slicing the object along a given axis.

    Plane slices provide a useful way of...
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    Re: Newbie needing help with a DXF 3D Drawing

    Use the CAD program to oriented the object as it needs to be to be machine as planned, then import into CAMBAM is probably best.


    Though in CAMBAM use/try:

    EDIT>TRANSFORM>ROTATE

    [Check...
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    Re: Installing CamBam to Bridgeport Series 2 MDI

    CAMBAM does not link to your machine, CAMBAM only coverts drawing files to G-code. There is intermediate software and hardware required. The bit below describes it generally.

    CAMBAM takes a...
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    Re: SCRIPT & PLUGIN SUMMARY FOR CAMBAM

    CAMBAM scripts and plugins summary has been again as of August 9, 2014.

    SCRIPT & PLUGIN SUMMARY
  18. Thread: V-bit feed rate

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    Re: V-bit feed rate

    A thread on this issue from WoodWeb:

    Making Miter-Fold Corners with Wood Veneer
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    SCRIPT & PLUGIN SUMMARY FOR CAMBAM

    A summary of all Scripts and Plug-Ins for CAMBAM has been posted. It show the lasted update, the thread in the CAMBAM forum where it is discussed, and the location of a downloaded file.

    David...
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    Re: Kit for First Machine

    I have build two 3-axis cnc routers. So you understand my point-of-view: I make small furniture pieces, and jewelry and decorative boxes, plus cut dash boards inserts to mount instrument in power...
  21. Thread: How is it so far?

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    Re: How is it so far?

    I built my first controller/breakout board. More of a learning experience than I bargained for. Learned lots, one of which is to buy them. Bought "cheap" [not inexpensive] first time; second one I...
  22. Thread: How is it so far?

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    Re: How is it so far?

    Suggest you try CAMBAM for an all-round CAM program for 2D, 2.5D and 3D. Bit of a steep learning curve, but the forum is top notch. One contributor took the CAMBAM help files and translated them...
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    Re: Old Bulleri Router in need of modern control

    Here is one: CNC Controls & CNC Kits - MachMotion.com Home

    There was a poster in the woodworking CNC router forum on this site who renovated and upgraded a huge CNC that cut aluminum and changed...
  24. Re: Which CAM Software Has Automated Multi-tool Strategies?

    TheCamMan stated: In MHO you won’t find a system for quite a while that will be able to overcome the conceptual thought issue.


    I use CAMBAM, which is not a real intuitive cam package, though...
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    Re: MACH 3 QUESTIONS FROM A NOVICE USER

    Reading section 6.2 in this PDF might help.

    http://vortechcnc.com/MACHInstructionManual2.pdf


    Watch the video titled: Homing, Limits, and Offsets [3rd down on left]

    at this site: ArtSoft...
  26. Thread: CamBam UK forum

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    Re: CamBam UK forum

    Only one person writes CAMBAM and runs the site, and it is his, and, he can do what he pleases.

    I went through all the posts on the CAMBAM site and did not find anyone posting with the name...
  27. Thread: CamBam UK forum

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    Re: CamBam UK forum

    Everything about CAMBAM rests on one very talented and pleasant guy.

    Be patient, its worth it.
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    Re: how to break 1 part into 2?

    diagonal distance is the hypotenuse of a right triangle, so hypotenuse length = square root of sum of length of each adjacent side squared

    process description:

    1. Square length of each...
  29. Thread: Rotate a drawing

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    Re: Rotate a drawing

    I use Alibre Design 10..so no guarantees

    Select figure, then on Tool Bar: Sketch>Rotate..follow instructions

    If there are horizontal and/or vertical constraints, you will have to remove them....
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    Re: Secret to using mdf on a cnc router?

    1. Does your machine move as the controller says it is moving; i.e., is the machine calibrated to the software?

    2. Are you using old or new MDF? I found some of the veneer-covered MDF that I'd...
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