Re: [Emc-users] Harmonic Drive

2021-12-14 Thread John Dammeyer
I've opened it in FreeCAD. Exported the pieces as STEP files and imported those into AlibreCAD. I added holes in each pinion gear so that they can be screwed together. I've sliced it to sit on a 6 layer raft so that the teeth on the glass sided aren't all distorted. Time to print will be

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc-config for H-Bot machine

2021-12-14 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 19:29, Joop Goedbloed wrote: > Is there a linuxcnc-config for H-BOT machine with 2 steppers or is there > additional hardware necessary. There is support for core-xy: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man9/kins.9.html I don't see direct support for H-bot. (But I

Re: [Emc-users] Harmonic Drive

2021-12-14 Thread Todd Zuercher
It is a Freecad file, you have to open it with Freecad. (If I double click on it in a file manager on a Linux pc I get that list to.) Todd Zuercher P. Graham Dunn Inc. 630 Henry Street  Dalton, Ohio 44618 Phone:  (330)828-2105ext. 2031 -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett Sent:

[Emc-users] Linuxcnc-config for H-Bot machine

2021-12-14 Thread Joop Goedbloed
Hello all Is there a linuxcnc-config for H-BOT machine with 2 steppers or is there additional hardware necessary. thanks for help Joop Goedbloed -- Dit bericht is verzonden met Thunderbird op Linux. Linux is een vrij- en open besturings-systeem, onafhankelijk van Microsoft, Google en Apple.

Re: [Emc-users] Harmonic Drive

2021-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tue, 14 Dec, 2021 at 1:53 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: To: 'enhanced machine controller (emc)' Gene Reading through my copy of "Gears and Gear Cutting" by Ivan Law (#19 in the workshop practice series) and some more research suggests that since both the cup and the ring gear should have over

Re: [Emc-users] Harmonic Drive

2021-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tue, 14 Dec, 2021 at 1:07 PM, Todd Zuercher wrote: To: enhanced machine controller (emc) The "pinned" pinions are for if they are to be conventionally made metal gears to accommodate easy conventional manufacturing. If they were printed, they could simply printed as one piece. A metal

Re: [Emc-users] Harmonic Drive

2021-12-14 Thread John Dammeyer
Gene Reading through my copy of "Gears and Gear Cutting" by Ivan Law (#19 in the workshop practice series) and some more research suggests that since both the cup and the ring gear should have over 135 Teeth that the tooth shape approaches the diameter of a rack and therefore they really aren't

Re: [Emc-users] Harmonic Drive

2021-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tue, 14 Dec, 2021 at 12:31 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: To: 'enhanced machine controller (emc)' Todd, I'm not sure I 'get' how it works with the pinned gears. I built a different kind of flex cup drive based on a paper on what is called an HGD_EWG_Drive