Search:

Try http://www.harveytool.com/ or http://www.osgtool.com/ for diamond tooling. I've used both & they are excellent.

-B

Just keep it out of your nose & you'll be fine.

Don't expect your 1/16" end mill to last very long if it isn't diamond coated. I would cut CF @ 12,000 - 14,000 RPM @ 50-90 IPM on a CNC router. If...

Thanks for the kudos guys. I try to do the best job that I can while keeping costs reasonable. Smaller businesses simply can't afford what large scanning companies want to charge you...that's where...

Greg,
Thanks for the compliments! It was a lot of fun to do something on this scale & it's even more fun when customers walk right by it on the way into the shop...only to be greeted by it on the...

Bravo to Syil! That's one heck of a gesture considering that the unit wasn't even purchased thru them. That's like buying a greymarket Porsche and it won't start and the local Porsche dealership...

Thanks guys. I did a live demo today with Mecsoft and another vendor. I gotta say, it looks like a nice program. After seeing the live demo I have a better idea of the workflow...so now I can try the...

I just acquired 2 CNC lathes, both of which will be controlled via Mach. I'm having a tough time finding a decent CAM program that will do all the 2D lathe operations (facing, parting, grooving,...

Hey guys,
No...I was going to run it all the way thru, but stopped it around 2AM. I don't like to take chances with something happening overnight...and am not keen to waking up to the sound of fire...

www.dumpstercnc.com

Joe,
The fact that I voluntarily write a column for the ShopBot community from time to time, hardly makes me as integral as Ted Hall...I run a job Shop outside Philly...Last I checked ShopBot was in...

Joe,
ShopBot hasn't used a DOS interface for a number of years now. Your 5+ year old PRT with 1/4 stepping drivers is not an accurate assessment of ShopBot's current technology & quality. If you...

Have YOU personally done any research to prove GW? I mean out in the field with all of the latest tools and techniques for this sort of research? I bet that you haven't...therefore, everything you...

And there you have it...can't you people SEE that they are all in the same self-promoting club? Like...DUH!!!

Carbon credits...doggie diamonds...Who do you think is going to ultimately PAY for...

Are you referring to Asian throat singing? :)

-Brady

Penguin,
Few are born with raw artistic talent in the sense that they can just sit down and come up with some marvelous design. Cut yourself some slack and give yourself some time to learn. You just...

Penguin,
It might be right up your alley to check out Google Sketchup. I saw one of their tutorial videos the other day and it showed them basically overlaying a picture of a vintage building with...

About $15,000 + a good accurate CNC machine. It totally blows away anything else commercially available up to about $60k, which is what I needed for my applications. Not all lasers are created equal....

Exactly!

-Brady

Minolta used to make a 3D camera that used structured light (line patterns) to create a 3D file. It was co-developed with a company called MetaCreations...It seems the technology was bought out and...

Live your life...and get in the pine box like the rest of us. There's no shortage of things to worry about, that's for sure!

Word to that!

I was thinking about doing the same thing with the NE when I 1st got into this stuff! It's a great way to index the scanner while maintaining an accurate distance from the model. That stinks about...

Chris,
What brand CNC is it? I bet that most of the cost is in the software 'module' you have to buy. I would look into this, since a touch probe is simply a switch and the software to run it is...

Senor,
No doubt the NE scanner is a neat little piece of hardware. For the money it is hard to beat. You have hundreds of hours using the NE scanner. New users would find the Roland much easier to...

Yes I know...the places that stock it near me rarely have the non-flouridated versions...Forget 'Tom'...he's a sellout for even offering a flouride version.

I was watching TV last night (a...

They put flouride (an industrial waste) in our drinking water for crying out loud...we can control that, but choose not to, since flouride makes people docile...and it's a good deal for industry to...

I think we should be more concerned with how legislation put into place by those who stand on the GW platform is going to affect us...It's not GW itself that is the real threat...it's all the junk...

You don't want to machine this part as an STL. It is a simple 2D part, that can be drawn up with 2D vectors (lines) and then drilling and milling toolpaths applied to those vectors. ANY CAM program...

Brat,
Thanks for the tips, I'll give them a go and see how it works for me.

Excel is out as far as manipulating the data...which is typically 500Mb to 1.5Gb in size. It is a Laser CMM of my own...

Brat,
Your reliefs look great for being done in Rhino. I know that relief creation and editing are no small feat in a triangle mesh environment. I wish Rhino was able to edit some of the full 3D...