Kirk Wallace wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 12:08 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
>   
>> Hello, all,
>>
>> I will be demo-ing EMC2 at the NAMES show in April.  I wanted to have 
>> some contouring program to show the fast EMC2 block processing rate.  
>> Does anyone have anything interesting that I could maybe cut out of wax 
>> that has a lot of short vectors?  The machine will be a 150 Lb minimill, 
>> so it has a 4" limit in the Y axis.
>>
>> I could probably code up something that writes G-code to carve a 
>> hemisphere or something like that, but if somebody has a more 
>> interesting surface that might be good.  I need to re-scale the penguin 
>> and try that, too.
>>
>> Jon
>>     
>
> I used this to see how smooth my Shizuoka could cut contours:
> http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Synergy/Screenshot-3b.png
>
> If you are interested, I can try to find the .ngc file (shouldn't be
> hard). I could also try to get Synergy to CAM a new shape.
>   
Well, that might work, I can't really tell what the 3-D shape is from 
one view.
I could probably code up something similar, too.  I was thinking maybe 
of something a bit "arty" for people to gawk at at the show.

Thanks,

Jon

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