RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Maybe OT, reprap build started

I think you have the right idea. No reason you can't use your existing cnc
router. You should also be able to use mach3 or EMC. . The only issue will
be the controlling the temperature. See

http://cnc2printer3d.wordpress.com/ as a solution to that issue. All you
really need to buy is a stepstruder, temperature controller and a driver
for it. A G251 is perfect.



What you can do is to use Replicator G to generate the G code from the stl
file. The edit the file to use your G code program. The above link has lots
of good info



Dan Mauch

www.camtronics-cnc.com



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Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Maybe OT, reprap build started





Cool. (Hot?)

Anyway, I've been sort of getting the bug myself lately. I just got my
gantry router working, and was thinking it might not be too hard to build an

extruder head for it and have a 3D printer in short order. I looked at the
latest head for the MakerBot, and I'm sure I could build the hardware and
electronics without too much trouble. But despite their claims to be an
"open source" project, there is no *source* code available anywhere for the
various microcontrollers (all Arduino, apparently). Neither do they publish
any schematics. Open source my @$$. Not that I think I'm entitled to
anything. Except maybe the truth. The only software I could find for
translating 3D models into G-Code was Skeinforge. There is ReplicatorG, but
that appears to be a wrapper for Skeinforge. What can you tell us about the
CAD/CAM tool chain to make this work?

Thanks for documenting your project. I'll be watching with interest.

--Phil M.

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