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From: Jaap
Subject: 3D mill test
Date: 29 Jun 2005 17:00:00
Message: <web.42c30aa458fcf1e1a8399d8d0@news.povray.org>
sorry, these are just over a year old, but anyway:

http://jwstolk.xs4all.nl/mill.htm

All mech calculations done in pov-code:
http://jwstolk.xs4all.nl/i/mill_1.avi (2.7 MB)
http://jwstolk.xs4all.nl/i/mill_2.avi (1.3 MB)
(Be gentle, I'm hosting this site over a broadband connection.)

Mech-sim:
http://jwstolk.xs4all.nl/i/frame_load.jpg

jaap.


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From: scott
Subject: Re: 3D mill test
Date: 30 Jun 2005 07:24:49
Message: <42c3d681$1@news.povray.org>
Jaap wrote:
> sorry, these are just over a year old, but anyway:
>
> http://jwstolk.xs4all.nl/mill.htm
>
> All mech calculations done in pov-code:
> http://jwstolk.xs4all.nl/i/mill_1.avi (2.7 MB)
> http://jwstolk.xs4all.nl/i/mill_2.avi (1.3 MB)
> (Be gentle, I'm hosting this site over a broadband connection.)
>
> Mech-sim:
> http://jwstolk.xs4all.nl/i/frame_load.jpg

Wow that's cool!  The lego model is great.  I hope it works out.  What are
you planning to use it for?


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From: Jaap
Subject: Re: 3D mill test
Date: 30 Jun 2005 12:55:00
Message: <web.42c423663b4dbf6ea8399d8d0@news.povray.org>
"scott" <sco### [at] spamcom> wrote:
> Wow that's cool!  The lego model is great.  I hope it works out.  What are
> you planning to use it for?

mostly milling scaled hull models for ship design, fibreglass molds,
the odd aluminium drilling, 3D measuring (copy/mirror/scale
existing molds), maybe some pick-and-place PCB stuff.

I used the visualMill demo software, which can show the full
cutting path on the screen. I saved the cutting path to a text
file using an OpenGL-logger :-).

it would probably be not very difficult to write something
in povray using the trace function. the cutting path is
converted to accelerate - const - decelerate sequences for
each motor (and compensating for the non-linear movements of
the machine) the acceleration list is then converted to the
timing for each step of each moter in real-time on a dos PC
(with all interrupts disabled) i can do 3 motors at > 100.000
steps/sec. on a 166 MHz pentium, using the 166 Mhz 64-bit cpu clock.

this project stopped about a year ago, but I now have
a big TOS-SN50 (6.5 KW) lathe (not looking as nice as
http://www.lukesmachinery.com/media/TOS-SN50-Lathe.jpg )
so things should be on the move soon.


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