[shawncnelson]

A good friend of mine has created a program in Qbasic that takes user inputs and creates 3D wave forms that he then machines in aluminum. Here's a link to some photos. NICE WORK JEFFREY!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreygarman/48315061/

[mxtras]

That is very interesting work!

Scott

[j m]

Welcome shawncnelson
that’s very impressive! Are all the pieces in the “Soy Wax Molds of Sculpture”
photo produced from the same program? And are the pictures of the Kaliedescope are they made in a program or a picture
jm

[buscht]

That's a commercially viable product! Your friend might want to contact a company like www.interlam-design.com and see if they would be willing to buy his code, market his designs, or pay him royalties for the designs.

I like it!

[shawncnelson]

yes, his soywax and aluminum pieces all use the same process/program. I'll see if I can get him to post here.

[shawncnelson]

I think the Kaliedescope pics are a photo trick.

[wholepair]

Thanks Shawn -

I post on CNCzone often actually, (and yet i'm still a chip sweeper). Most of the time my posts are to ask questions about software/hardware DIY cnc stuff. I respond to my own posts all the time. It's like im talking to myself. Im in the middle of setting up an ENCO Column mill CNC retrofit that I bought for a shop space I share with some other people. I've run it with TurboCNC a few times and am now setting up another computer with a realtime linux install and the EMC controler.

I maintain an online webpage slash gallery @ www.jeffreygarman.com ...

Check it out - please leave comments - I'm not a self promoter usualy cause I stick my foot in my mouth all the time! Plus my spelling and grammer sucks! I am very busy right now, and any time I spend messing around with my machine is time I should be spending studying. But thankyou for starting this thread!

[j m]

Hello wholepair,
To get out of being a chip sweeper you have to post over a hundred times then you become an apprentice.
Hope the studying doesn’t get to much in the way of the serious work of using the cnc
james

[wholepair]

Well - if its a mere matter of numbers then I will start posting more trivial messages - like:

[wholepair]

Thanks for the info James!
:banana: :banana: :banana:

This reminds me of that Gwen Staffanie song.
BANANAS
Im not your holaback boy - how do you spell holaback?

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[buscht]

Actually, you can go into your profile and call yourself whatever you want.
Wave form Master, for example.

[wholepair]

I think CNCzone should qualify thier chipsweeper to apprentice transition a little better - we've all heard the phrase (Quality before Quantity)

So how about if there is a method of "Quality Assurance" involved.

Maybe take into account message usefullness - length - word/count - understandability - let people rate messages - etc

I dont't know - just a thought...

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[wholepair]

Oh - I see: Thanks Buscht

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[CJL5585]

Thanks Shawn -

I post on CNCzone often actually, (and yet i'm still a chip sweeper). Most of the time my posts are to ask questions about software/hardware DIY cnc stuff. I respond to my own posts all the time. It's like im talking to myself. Im in the middle of setting up an ENCO Column mill CNC retrofit that I bought for a shop space I share with some other people. I've run it with TurboCNC a few times and am now setting up another computer with a realtime linux install and the EMC controler.

I maintain an online webpage slash gallery @ www.jeffreygarman.com ...

Check it out - please leave comments - I'm not a self promoter usualy cause I stick my foot in my mouth all the time! Plus my spelling and grammer sucks! I am very busy right now, and any time I spend messing around with my machine is time I should be spending studying. But thankyou for starting this thread!

I love your website and all the items that you have made. Wish that I could make those items.

I never did figure out how to leave comments on your web site. I would type my name in the box and then click OK. Nothing happened. If I tried to type my name and leave the comment in the box, I received an error. Anyway, I didn't figure it out.

Loved your work. Museum quality.
Jerry

[wholepair]

CJL5585

Im sorry you had problems leaving comments, thanks for the accolades.
Coppermine is open-source, and there-fore it has alot of 'features'...

Lately I've been useing flickr more and more and more and more.

try:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreygarman/show/

There comments functionality is superb.

[CJL5585]

What kind of software are you using to generate the wave patterns? I saw portions of the basic code that called some files off the C drive which were generated by some method.

Also, the circles in the wax appeared to have been superimposed upon the wave pattern by some method. That in itself is interesting to me.

Any comments will be appreciated.

Looked at the latest site. Really amazing.

By the way, what is that contraption that looks like a geared servo motor with two steppers (IN SERIES?) attached to the shaft? That is also interesting.

Jerry

[ger21]

What kind of software are you using to generate the wave patterns?

I did this in Lightwave in a few minutes. With a little tweaking, I could probably get similar results to what he had.

[automizer]

wow this stuff is really interesting, I could see this on the walls of a hip new club or something. I would want to cut something like that out of something that air could pass threw and do like a vacuum form of some sort.

[wholepair]

ger21

What is Lightwave and what file formats does it support? Can it export to any of these: IGES, SAT, 3DS? Can you write code from it?

oh - I found it. http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/

looks expensive. and cool too. I've experimented with this thing called 3D Blender, it's freeware, but I got frustrated with the learning curve on it. Maybe I will go back to it some day.

I know people who use Maya, http://www.highend3d.com/ , and they can do some real amazing things with it. Send me an iges, or a sat of a surface so I can try to make NC code from it.

[wholepair]

CJL5585:

The contraption with the geared stepper motor is a computer controled Heliodon I helped in the building of with an architect.

See:
http://bikegeeks.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-69
This is an explination:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliodon