On 15 February 2012 19:17, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:23:55 AM Roland Jollivet did opine: > > > On 15 February 2012 13:45, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did opine: > > > > get a CD that > > > > you dont want to listen to anymore, and cnc it out of that. and > > > > then paint it black. > > > > > > Now that might be (the old cd) a usable idea. I probably bin a 50 > > > pack a year of those, old data & distro's going obsolete mostly. And > > > that should be cheap enough even if I use a fresh cdr to serve as a > > > test developing tool. I don't recall ever seeing a cd get hot enough > > > to warp either. I can fine tune it 5 thou here, and 5 thou there to > > > optimize the design very easily. > > > > > > I like that Charles, thanks. You'll go in style, for a while, on 16th > > > avenue. (by Roseann Cash, Johns daughter) > > > > > > Cheers, Gene > > > -- > > > > Gee, forgot about that.... > > Many of the new 'lightscribe' DVD players can burn an image onto the > > scribble side of the DVD, so see if you can just burn your encoder > > pattern onto the surface. I'm sure it's been done a 100 times. Will > > look.. > > > > Maybe even experiment with turning the DVD upside down so you burn the > > image on the code side. > > > > Regards > > Roland > > That won't fly Roland. 2 reasons. > > I forgot to turn one over before I ran lightscribe, and it knew the disk > was upside down. > > And to do that, we would need a working cut-sim to convert our gcode to an > image format (png?) lightscribe accepts. My little fishing expedition into > that over the last 24 hours seems to have disclosed that none of the trails > I followed have led to working code, the closest I got was openscam which I > had to build, but then fails to do anything useful, and that the best > 'preview' of what I want to do is likely to be obtained by making it out of > a cd & perhaps a coat of black paint. > > All this could be satisfied by my proposed additional field in the > tooltable that would enable, perhaps as a preview only translation as the > code loads, which would turn the backtrace plot into a great preview by > utilizing the selected tools diameter as the width of the path to trace, > perhaps even using a different color for each tool size, as opposed to the > current 1 pixel wide wire frame of the tools center line path. I can see > where this is certainly not a run time option for obvious video horsepower > needed reasons, not to mention the video memory required. Other than > loading time growing by 500x for the preview only render, it would still be > cheaper than the worn tooling and materiel cut up only to find there isn't > room enough to make it work that way. > > Have you seen this; http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1527
Might be of use. Regards Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
