Hi Phil, your door plate looks great, nice one!
I think your wheel looks amazing too but I`m taking from your message that your not that impressed. Your finish is good for MDF - I know you gave use the feed but what spindle speed did you use?
Chris
What's wrong with this picture?With such a beautifully finished door plate the attaching screws cry out to have their slots in perfect alignment!!!! :med:
Joe
can you straighten the barrel on the lock please, and please don't put pizza screws in, they are for amateurs, real men use slots. :ddb:
anyway really nice job lets see some more and the mill doing it
Peter, Phil.
Yes, I have to agree, on an aged door. :thumbup:
With a "Victorian", stainless plate and Yale lock...... :D
David D
And a garden crew stripping the turf off my front lawn......... :(
David D
Hey Phil...
What are you using for a CNC? Have you answered that already? I am losing it...
Eric
Hi Phil
The MeshCam wheel looks allot better than the wheel cut with Aspire ,,,,,,,, wonder why :scratch: it also did not cut into the rim inner as Aspire did .
Whats the cutting time for one in steel/cast iron ?
Rob
Hey Phil...
What are you using for a CNC? Have you answered that already? I am losing it...
Eric
Hi Eric,
I did a post about it a couple of weeks ago:
http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=6964.msg74694#msg74694
Cheers.
:beer:
Phil.
I have no direct experience of either package that Phil used - I do know from my limited exposure to CAM (mainly Alibre CAM) that there may well be 'non-obvious' setting options that can make a big difference to the outcome.
It would be interesting to understand if the 'better' looking results with MeshCam are due to inherently better gcode generation, or just default settings (for something in the program) that suit this job better than those in Aspire. I.E. with 'equivalent settings' (not necessarily easy if the terminology doesn't match) would the results be similar in both packages?
Phil,
send me the stl file and what tooling you wnat to use, speeds and feeds and I'll bung it thri Cut 3D and post you the code.
john [ at ] stevenson-engineers.co.uk
Phil, Can you resend it please, not showing up here.Hi John,
Smaller one wouldn't open.
Found the first file in junk on the server.
This is what Cut3D reckons it's going to do.
Five minutes for the roughing pass and 24 minutes for finishing path but I told it to do a second finishing path at 90 degrees to the first so total of 51 minutes.
Email sent with code.
John S.
The raster looks good for an ACME z-screw. The Waterline finishing would improve the overall finish. \
If I were to do that part, I would probably start by pocketing everything that can be pocketed. Raster with a ballnose in probably a couple of directions, then do the final finish with the waterline type of program. If you want an extremely fine finish, decrease your stepover and ramp up your feeds, and use the largest tool possible.
Anyways, looks good! It's always fun to finish 3d parts! :clap:
Paul