I will pass this along to the FreeCAD path chat on gitter. I’m sure some people wouldn’t mind the info in here. There is a good chunk of work being done on the Path workbench but the feature freeze will slow things down as they try to stabilize it for the 0.19 release.
-Thorhian > On Feb 11, 2021, at 6:17 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday 11 February 2021 07:17:20 andy pugh wrote: > >>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 03:20, Bari <[email protected]> wrote: >>> https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/29225/50140264-MIT.pd >>> f >> >> One of the better PhD theses I have read. (Not that I have read all of >> it) >> >> It is interesting to think back to what the state-of-the-art was in >> 2001. I think that I was still using 2.5D AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop. > > Makes me wonder if thats how toy was able to turn a block of alu into a > v8 engine block in about 4 hours as we saw in the since scrubbed from > u-tube video quite a few years ago. That machine was at least 6 axis > with a fully articulated head. Engine blocks only leased to TRO folks we > were told, issued as sealed engines you were not even authorized to > change spark plugs in. > > With the patent now expired, I would be tempted to donate to the FreeCAD > folks if I knew they were working on it. It would be a huge feather in > our LinuxCNC hat if some sort of a co-operative arrangement that > resulted in compatible preprocess code we could use. > > That, and affordable machines. Like a gantry mill with a swinging to the > side head, suspended between gantry arms to swing the whole head fore > and aft. But you won't buy that for 10 grand, enough rigidity to pull > that off will cost a lot more. That lack of rigidity is a problem with > my 6040 as there are certain places in cutting a circle out that can't > be done without visible chatter in the finish. It works pretty accuratly > as long as the depth of cut in alu is .25mm or less per pass. But thats > 10% of the DOC its capable of if it were rigid enough. > > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
