RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: We have came a long ways.
While I always look back and the early days with fondness, I still think that the home hobbyist and small business can benefit from further advances in home CNC. That is why I have been working on a low 5 axis system. The problem with 5 axis Cad/Cam software is that it is expensive running from $6000 to $15000. Well beyond the means and therefore desires we have for machines that would perform like the commercial but truly expensive machines.
I have been working on the mechanical and the control side of 5 axis machining. See my video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD0zMushHRc . But I didn’t create the tool paths for mach3. I have a friend that has access to a $10,000 program that generated the G code. He said the hard part was the post processor. I have played with a low cost solution namely CNC_TooL_Kit . It free and it works for head mounted B and C axis. The problem is that it wouldn’t work with a low boy trunnion type B/C axis as shown in the video. The software script is open source however, I do not possess sufficient programming knowledge to make it work with a trunnion type system. Hopefully someone will take a few hours to modify it so that it would work with a trunnion type 5 axis machine.
Dan Mauch
Camtronics Inc
21th Anniversary in CNC
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Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: We have came a long ways.
I think I was on that first list. Please send me a copy, I will keep it.
Maybe it ought to be put in a file in this groups file area, just as a
bit of history.
yes, it has all come a very long way, even the CAD and CAM parts. And it
is great that many of the guys in this are making money, if not a living
from it. Many small businesses have been started to support this hobby-
and the hobby has morphed into many small business as well.
ron ginger
> We have came a long ways. Not only a lot of progress in CNC's but a lot
> of memories of how CCED helped way back at the beginning. It is good to see
> many of the older members discussing that progress. So many names, so
> many memories, some about the good fights, we had.
>
> I still have the original list of the guys that signed up at a CNC seminar
> at Names in 1996, that were the very first members of CCED. With my age, I
> would hate to see it thrown away, if someone would like to have it.
> If anyone is interested in having it, please let me know, with an address,
> I will send it to the first to reply,
> bill,
> List Mom