On Sunday 19 July 2020 19:58:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > 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
The zip contains a .step file. What does linux use to render/view that? That file does contain the bearing part numbers, so that helps, if my print is rendering the correct size. Thanks all. 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
