I'm thinking of a 100 line encoder. Wouldn't require too much resolution. Tested from the rhino cad program and output seems very acceptable. But I assume for more then 200 line, it could be worse.
Geert 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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