On Sunday 30 November 2014 14:10:09 Bertho Stultiens did opine And Gene did reply: > On 11/30/2014 03:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 30 November 2014 07:04:10 W. Martinjak did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> On 2014-11-27 15:46, Bertho Stultiens wrote: > >>> The updated documentation is online at: > >>> http://www.vagrearg.org/content/gcmc-into > >> > >> Should be: > >> http://www.vagrearg.org/content/gcmc-intro > > > > Yes. is this very complete web page available in pdf for making dead > > tree copies? It would be bound and occupy the shelf beside the > > monitor in my case. > > Hm, no, not as such. But you could get the source html in the browser > (from the distro or webpage) and do a "Print to File" as a Postscript > file. Then run: > $ ps2pdf -dOptimize=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps > (or whatever papaer size you require) that will give you a "myfile.pdf" > file. Then you can print that pdf on a printer using dead trees, bind > it and put it on the shelf. > > However, it might be easier to save the html locally and read it > locally in the browser or print it from your browser directly then ;-)
Which is what I just did, and punched & mounted in a folder. But in looking it over, it seems to me that writing what I want it to do in a new language, and then translating it into gcode adds more complexity than I would have just writing it in gcode in the first place. I have it in mind to have a couple vars in it which will be used as multipliers so I can control which set of these huge box fingers is being cut by inverting the shape of the cut in the y direction depending on whether a var is 1.0000 or 0.00000. The tool offset for its diameter will be similarly added or subtracted in step with the current xstep count. Once I get all the variables set up and assigned, this whole thing can be done in another 15-20 lines of code in 2 loops, one to trace the fingers and one to increment the z depth. And to do the matching end pieces, just set the side to zero and the code will invert the y runs, and invert the tool radius so its added or subtracted from the current xtmp. Finger joint fit will be by tweaking the tool radius, a tighter fit needed means I should up the tool radii a thou, or if too tight, reduce till its correct. The fingers all get the corners radiused with a 1/4" round over bit so the side of the finger fits the bit radius at the inner end of the cut. Done right, these joints only need a drop of glue spread across the bottoms of the gully's between the fingers. Each finger will be drilled & countersunk, and a #6 pan head about 1.5" long will pull them together, hopefully before the glue sets up, and that means something slower than titebond III as its sets in 10 minutes too tight to squeeze it back out. Then the counter bore gets squared up with a punch I'll also have to make, and a teeny little pillow topped plug of Gabon ebony is glued & driven into the now punched out square screw hole to hide the screw. I'll have to make that tool because the counter bore needs to be flat bottomed, but I can pull the drill bit and reshape most any drill & countersink combo to do that. The square punch I will have to make too. As well as making the ebony plugs. Almost $70 with shipping for a 2x2x12" piece of that stuff! And I will have made sawdust out of, or used about 24 bd/ft of $12/ft mahogany by the time I reach for the stuff to make some of Sam's stuff for finish. Thats $300 for mahogany right there. Add in the rest of the period hardware from WhiteChapel, and if someone wants a copy its going to be circa $750 for it. This one is for my better half. Too late for our 25th anniversary on Tuesday the 2nd, but it will get done if I don't fall over first. Today is a good day, I woke up. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
