This may well be a dumb question Gene, but given you have the machine shop and CNC couldn't you make the gears etc yourself out of metal? John
> -----Original Message----- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net] > Sent: July-19-20 4:59 PM > To: 'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)' > Subject: [Emc-users] found a harmonic drive set of .stl's on thingiverse > > Greetings all; > > And I can say without fear of contradiction the openscad IS the problem, > > I am current about 2mm up of a print of the outside gear of the drive, > and the teeth are 100% filled and very well formed so far, its the best > rendering I've seen on the build bed yet, so much better than what > openscad generates I thought my machine had been swapped for a well > adjusted one in the night last night. I think I'll make about 3 of > everything so I'll have 2 drives and a spares kit. > > Biggest problem is the 12+ hour renderiing time per piece pf this first > piece, and there are 2 pieces bigger yet than this one. Now I can see > why some folks have a whole room full of printers. I'll be two weeks > making parts for three drives. > > Hopefully I can put it together correctly, there are no text files and I > haven't the foggiest what bearings I'll need, or what brand of grease. > > 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) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
