Re: [Emc-users] Gear Tooth Profile

2009-05-13 Thread Dave Caroline
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 22:03 -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Kirk,    I have software (FAPT) that will generate the tooth profile using the information out of the machinery's handbook charts. I would be happy to

Re: [Emc-users] almost for how helpful

2009-05-13 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
Driving a Volvo almost qualifies you for riff-raff... ;-) Mark At 02:07 PM 5/12/2009, you wrote: For us not natives, what is riff raff? Tried to google it, maybe means plebeian or so? Anyway, I drive an old Volvo. -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett

Re: [Emc-users] Gear Tooth Profile

2009-05-13 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
At 01:23 AM 5/13/2009, you wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 07:24 +1000, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:30 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: I don't know where to tell you to look but the metric gear info is out there somewhere for little or no money. I thought you where

Re: [Emc-users] Gear Tooth Profile

2009-05-13 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Sorry I don't have a .dwg compatible CAD program, so I can't view these gear files. From the links I have received, it's turning out that it's not that difficult to generate the gear profile ounce you have the pitch diameter and pitch determined, so the drawings might not be all

Re: [Emc-users] gear tooth profile

2009-05-13 Thread Alpha
try this site. Just type in the gear size and it will make you a cad drawing. http://www.rushgears.com/Tech_Tools/PartSearch3/partSearch.php -- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your

Re: [Emc-users] almost for how helpful

2009-05-13 Thread Dave Engvall
Hey! Those Volvo's were good to me. Driving the 122 108 hp I could hit the bottom the the Vantage grade (carrying 2 250 lb passengers) at 85 and come out the top at 85 12 mi later; only 2000 ft of elevation gain. Not bad for 1800 cc. I added a homebuilt 6 v SCR ignition to the 544 and

Re: [Emc-users] almost for how helpful

2009-05-13 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
Just kidding... ;-) Mark At 09:59 AM 5/13/2009, you wrote: Hey! Those Volvo's were good to me. Driving the 122 108 hp I could hit the bottom the the Vantage grade (carrying 2 250 lb passengers) at 85 and come out the top at 85 12 mi later; only 2000 ft of elevation gain. Not bad for 1800 cc.

[Emc-users] hardware issues

2009-05-13 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi, Has anyone looked at the SoftDMC for the m5i20 as an easy way to experiment with an embedded motion controller? My casual reading of the manual convinces me that it might do the job. It does lack arc moves so one would have to pt to pt them. The hope here is that this might spur

Re: [Emc-users] almost for how helpful

2009-05-13 Thread Dave Engvall
Anyone that likes/liked Digital products can't be a bad guy. I still have a couple of 11's tucked away. Dave On May 13, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: Just kidding... ;-) Mark At 09:59 AM 5/13/2009, you wrote: Hey! Those Volvo's were good to me. Driving the 122 108 hp

Re: [Emc-users] Gear Tooth Profile

2009-05-13 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:07 +0100, Dave Caroline wrote: ... snip see the g code I posted (in [Emc-users] [OT] Fun with Math thread) for 4 axis all it needs is a fly cutter ground to your rack form (near ... snip It wont take too much to add the few missing starting points and later to amend to

Re: [Emc-users] Gear Tooth Profile

2009-05-13 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 05:29 -0400, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: ... snip Kurt, Can you read in .dxf's? If you want, you could send me the gear drawings of the gears you're interested in, and I can save them in AutoCad 2003 as dxf's and send them back to you. Mark Thanks

Re: [Emc-users] gear tooth profile

2009-05-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alpha wrote: try this site. Just type in the gear size and it will make you a cad drawing. http://www.rushgears.com/Tech_Tools/PartSearch3/partSearch.php Unforch, the site doesn't like FF newer than 2.00.20, and reports that no viewer is available for my OS of choice.

Re: [Emc-users] almost for how helpful

2009-05-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Dave Engvall wrote: Hey! Those Volvo's were good to me. Driving the 122 108 hp I could hit the bottom the the Vantage grade (carrying 2 250 lb passengers) at 85 and come out the top at 85 12 mi later; only 2000 ft of elevation gain. Not bad for 1800 cc. I added a

Re: [Emc-users] almost for how helpful

2009-05-13 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
They were my favorite machines to sysadmin! Mark At 10:21 AM 5/13/2009, you wrote: Anyone that likes/liked Digital products can't be a bad guy. I still have a couple of 11's tucked away. Dave On May 13, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: Just kidding... ;-) Mark At

Re: [Emc-users] Gear Tooth Profile

2009-05-13 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
At 11:11 AM 5/13/2009, you wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 05:29 -0400, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: ... snip Kurt, Can you read in .dxf's? If you want, you could send me the gear drawings of the gears you're interested in, and I can save them in AutoCad 2003 as dxf's and send

Re: [Emc-users] Gear Tooth Profile

2009-05-13 Thread Peter blodow
Hello Kirk, I wonder how much fuss you guys are making about gear cutting. Small machine (table mill): Last year I bought a small, but high precision table mill with most of the gears missing, so I had to make them myself. They are module 0.8. I bought a set of 8 cutters in ebay from an

Re: [Emc-users] almost for how helpful

2009-05-13 Thread Douglas Pollard
Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: They were my favorite machines to sysadmin! Mark At 10:21 AM 5/13/2009, you wrote: Anyone that likes/liked Digital products can't be a bad guy. I still have a couple of 11's tucked away. Dave On May 13, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:

[Emc-users] CAD package suggestion

2009-05-13 Thread Rich Amaral
Hey guys, Can anyone suggest a good CAD package either open source (preferred) or commercial (reasonable price) that you've used and works well. I'm looking for something with an easy/intuitive interface, that can export either dxf or gcode for either 2.5d or 3d. It would be nice if it

Re: [Emc-users] CAD package suggestion

2009-05-13 Thread Rainer Schmidt
I use Rhino and RhinoCam with great success. It works. I have not had a single crash yet. And the GCode never caused concern. Rainer On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Rich Amaral rama...@aes-softwareconsulting.com wrote: Hey guys, Can anyone suggest a good CAD package either open source

Re: [Emc-users] almost for how helpful

2009-05-13 Thread Rainer Schmidt
Just threw my VT100 onto the trash after the keyboard become dodgy and Emulation through the PC works just as good... I'll still miss it 8). R On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Dave Engvall dengv...@charter.net wrote: Anyone that likes/liked  Digital products can't be a bad guy. I still have a

[Emc-users] Convert BRL-CAD 3D data into gcode

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Buesch
Here's a small script that conveniently converts BRL-CAD databases into gcode. The commandline looks like this: ./brlcad2gcode.sh brlcad_database.g brlcad_object_to_pick file.ngc brlcad_object_to_pick should be a region or something like this in the database that you want to pick for

[Emc-users] CADCAM package suggestion

2009-05-13 Thread Dan Falck
I've been holding back on talking about this for a bit, while some packaging work was being done: HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC- http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/ http://code.google.com/p/heekscnc/ I am using this open source CADCAM suite with great success now. There are packages for Ubuntu8.10