Ok post above made me think that I might need to reiterate the full idea.
I want to have a larger scale machine for cutting prime EPS blanks for surfboards, cutting plugs for composite vaccum bagging, and at most in the future I might retrofit it for cutting balsa although that is a secondary concearn.
The actual machine will have a MIG welded steel frame that will sit on the concreate floor and will have demensions on the order of X x Y x Z of around
8ft x 4ft x 5ft in a configuration like this but with a few adjustments in the cutting, materials, and layout for better stability and to eliminate flexing.
http://www.demandhotwire.com/twister.html
My primary questions now are
Size, type, torque, power of stepper motors?
Driver boards? Can I just build up 4 or 5 of the boards from Electronic Utopia? or do I have to go with something better like Gecko or Other?
Ballscrews or something like the Ball linear track system ?
Best program to use? I have access to Mach2, DeskCNC, turboCNC? Any suggestions on something that can control the motors and the rotating center section well.
Accuracy the best I can afford for under like a $thousand all together for the project.
I already have the materials for the frame and hopefully the motors above that I bought will work, also have all the computer stuff I need including power supplies(computer and otherwise) but dont have the Driver Boards/4axis5axis Driver setup?
Once again thank you for all of your help so far and the brainstorming and the jokes, VIPER, Fusion, Mac Knife![]()
thanks again guys much luv.
All suggestions and setting me straight are more than welcome. Love the pain!!!
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ashley