Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] home brew rapid prototype machines

Hi Andrew,

You've touched on something here which has been puzzling me for a while.
Just how would you go about deriving the g-code for a slice of a 3D model in
Rhino. I can see how you could fairly easily get a perimeter cut but how do
you do the fill-in?

Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Werby <drewid@...>
> [It sounds like one could make a head for a small milling machine that
> would substitute the modified glue dispenser for the spindle, and just
> raise up as the part grew. Deriving the contour lines is fairly simple (in
> Rhino, anyway), and converting them to g-code isn't that tough, but some
> sort of batch program would be needed to feed these successively to the
> machine with the correct vertical interval interposed. Then swap back to
> the spindle head and machine the wax to specs.]

Ian

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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK