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TVCs MKII Mods and Pics.

Discussion in 'Phlatprinter MKII MODIFICATIONS' started by tvcasualty, May 14, 2010.

  1. tvcasualty

    tvcasualty New Member

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    This uses the index function to cut propeller slots
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    Now your talking! :D Nice job Erik!
    Erik did you use the Phlatscript to make this cut?
    Mark
     
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    Mark, unfortunately I did not.
    I wrote the code by hand with help from cncmachineguy.
    The way I did it, the "C" axis rotates in degrees and the bit follows a single path. It would require significant work to adapt the postscript for XYZ +A or in my case C machining to work like this.

    Bert suggested another way of doing it that could use the postscript however.
    If you take the cut out area and think of it in slices rotated about the axis, and you knew the rotation, you could simply draw your cut out and then tell the bit to run that profile (on Y and Z) then rotate the part 1 degree, then run the next profile. I don't like that solution for "turning a part out" however for the prop slots, it seems like a pretty good way to go.
     
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    Nice work to both you guys!
    From the video I could see the inside angles of the slots and that's when I was blown away :) I knew you had to be doing something different to accomplish that .
    You might want to look into mesh-cam, there is a 30 day trial and it does allow 4th axis milling along with 2 sided milling. Its easy to use and inexpensive for how powerful it is.
    http://www.grzsoftware.com/
     

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