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Another idea i had was buying a small complete rotary table maybe only 100-200mm in diameter and then bolt the bigger 400mm diameter plate i want on that rotary table.

A good quality new rotary...

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I'm planing and trying to draw up some ideas for a 5-axis machine that will be able to mill steel, aluminium and such materials which is no easy task but i got quite clear picture of...

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I previusly had a standard installation of MasterCam X3 working on my computer and it came with a default post processor for Heidenhain iTNC 530 3-Axis but yesterday i reinstalled my...

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I have been playing around quite a bit with Sketchup, IronCad, SolidWorks, AutoCad and some more cad/drawing programs and the one that i think is really easy and fast to learn is IronCad...

Anyone sitting on a post for a Hermle C800U 5-axis machine that has iTNC 530 controller?

Or one that maybe will work and has 5-axis?

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Viperia

Well i got this computer preinstalled with EdgeCam from my work but there are no templates etc with it. Possible to get these some where else or if someone would be nice to give zip and email them...

Well i noticed that i do not have any of those machine template files in my install of EdgeCam is there any possibility that i could download them somewhere? Cant find anything on EdgeCams page.
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Sounds good but i do not have any templates or anything below, is there supposed to be that?

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Viperia

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I open the Code Wizard then select to make a new document and then press OK and a new window where i can select Mill, Lathe or Wire is presented and there i select Mill as the machine...

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This maybe is a really basic question but where and how do i in EdgeCam create and Post Processor? I have been looking around in most of the installed stuff but can not find anything that...

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A couple of days ago i was placed at a new machine at work which is a 5-axis Hermle B300 machine with iTNC 530 and it is a really cool machine that can make lots of nice things. ;)

The...

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Thanks for this great answer that now have shed a little light on my ideas and thoughts. Since i have to finnish another project i have in school i dont plan to start building any machine...

This is a damn long thread and i have read as much of it as i could but i cant understand if there have been any machines built this way or if there only have been done some test parts to see how it...

Still cant get this to work have tried all formats of .sat but AutoCad gives the same error all the time.

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Viperia

Thanks for the help there but is there something speciall i should do when saving from Solidworks? I guess i should go to "Insert" in Autocad then "ACIS File.." but when i do this i get an error...

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I have some .STEP files at home that i can open in Solidworks but in school we only use AutoCad so how can i convert these files to be used in autocad instead? Is this possible or is...

Well i know the speed of the hitachi router is to fast but thought maybe someone has used another router on his build.

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Viperia

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Im planing to build Joes CNC router as a project in school after the summer break since i think it is one of the most detailed projects here on cnczone and fit´s my needs for doing some...

I found it quite easy to resize the drawings after a little while, just open the files in autocad and select everything and scale it 25.4 bigger and take some measurements from the eDrawings files to...

If you are going to be really exact i get 1/2" using google to recalculate it gives me 12.700mm and 3/4 gives me 19.05mm.
So i think you are assuming right, need to know anything else?

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Im planing to build this machine as a project in school after the summer and i am also trying to find these drawings in metric but can´t find them. Any one that have them or can direct me...