Re: What do we want?

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:30:14 -0400, "Clint Bach"
<clintbach@...> wrote:

>I built a gantry router with
>a 30 inch by 60 inch work area. I can expand this machine to 60 inches by
>ten feet easily (Well sorta easily!!!) in the future.

I'd love to hear at least a sketch of how you can achieve that amount of
expandability; the mechanisms you've used to allow such expandability.
And also what resolutions you will likely get at those various sizes.

>I would like to be able to take a project
>from the doodle stage to the machined parts without an extreme amount of
>conversion.

I dunno about the metric on "amount of conversion" but have you looked
at Rhino3D as a modeling environment where you can "doodle", create a 3D
solid model of your creation, and then output directly CAM-compatible
G-code?

>I can also see EMC used as an animation controller! But that is another
>story...

Sounds plausible to me! After all, positioning is positioning (mostly :)

>PS. Why not push the envelope as far as we can?

Sure, especially when it's likely to be ghastly fun. :)

Gar