A while back, I tried printing an encoder with my CAD program. I didn't get very good results. My laser printer's resolution, which is great for printing documents, was lousy for encoders. What resolution and how small a disk is possible with your method? Although, I suppose for a spindle, a larger size and lower resolution is more appropriate. I am still looking into a magnetic encoder for clean but oily environments.
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 06:19 +0000, ben lipkowitz wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Geert De Pecker wrote: > > > To do threading on the lathe is the end goal. I'm still in the > > development phase for the encoder bit. Want to make it myself > > (see part of drawing at http://users.skynet.be/gedp/FILES/index.html). > > Geert, > There are some .ps files floating around that can be used to print your > own optical encoders, and since postscript is a programming language they > are relatively easily modified to do weird stuff such as in > http://fennetic.net/pub/irc/encoder-panelized.ps > > however i find postscript can be hard to understand sometimes, so i > rewrote it in python: > http://fennetic.net/pub/irc/draw_encoder.py > > hope this proves useful to someone > -fenn -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
