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2020-07-19 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
- the extrudeRelative variable needs to be set correctly. -Original Message- From: Thomas J Powderly [mailto:tjt...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 20 July 2020 12:36 AM To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] need advice, idea shoppingIOW. Gene do you want to convert

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2020-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 19 July 2020 14:24:29 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 19:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > If you want rounder curves, you need to decrease the triangle size > > > in the input STL file. > > > > And where do I do that in openscad? > > I have never used OpenSCAD. But after a bit

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2020-07-19 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 19:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > > If you want rounder curves, you need to decrease the triangle size in > > the input STL file. > > And where do I do that in openscad? I have never used OpenSCAD. But after a bit of a Google this might be the answer:

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2020-07-19 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 19:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I only know of one slicer that outputs curves, and I wrote it :-) > And its no doubt a better one, No, it is extremely limited. Cura is about the best slicer out there. I don't think that reinventing the wheel is going to help with the

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2020-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 19 July 2020 11:22:17 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 11:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I have come to the conclusion that both cura and merlin that run > > the enders need to be replaced as neither has a G2 or G3 for circles > > STL is a set of triangular facets. There are

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2020-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 19 July 2020 10:36:27 Thomas J Powderly wrote: > Gene > > do you want to convert a series of short lines that approximate arcs > > into g02/g03, to save space? > > Or, described as 'fitting x y  pairs to a circle'? > > > Dave E was looking for similar ( a good while back) and I didnt

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2020-07-19 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 16:54, Martin Dobbins wrote: > Are you going to share it with the world, so we can perhaps dispense with the > shenanigans with triangles and grumpy slicers? It outputs SVG for a DLP, so isn't particularly useful here. And it is a VB Macro for Inventor, so I doubt anyone

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2020-07-19 Thread Martin Dobbins
>If you want rounder curves, you need to decrease the triangle size in >the input STL file. >I only know of one slicer that outputs curves, and I wrote it :-) >(And it works directly off the CAD model in Inventor, where curves do exist) Are you going to share it with the world, so we can

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2020-07-19 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 11:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > And I have come to the conclusion that both cura and merlin that run the > enders need to be replaced as neither has a G2 or G3 for circles STL is a set of triangular facets. There are no curves for the slicer to make G2 or G3 arcs out of. If

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2020-07-19 Thread Thomas J Powderly
Gene do you want to convert a series of short lines that approximate arcs into g02/g03, to save space? Or, described as 'fitting x y  pairs to a circle'? Dave E was looking for similar ( a good while back) and I didnt find any. If you have slices that can be processed in scripts with

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2020-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2020 22:21:20 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > Circa 1990: Have you heard of the new Hubble Cocktail? It's very > expensive, comes in a hand polished glass, and after you finish it, > your vision is all blurry. > ROTFLMAO! I missed that one at the time, shame on me.

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2020-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2020 22:18:33 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > PLA should have enough flex for the part of a cycloidal drive that has > to flex. It also is pretty tough so wear would be a minimal issue. If its tall enough to flex. This PLA seems to be pretty fragile cold. And

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2020-07-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
Circa 1990: Have you heard of the new Hubble Cocktail? It's very expensive, comes in a hand polished glass, and after you finish it, your vision is all blurry. On Saturday, July 18, 2020, 3:06:06 PM MDT, Bari wrote: On 7/18/20 3:52 PM, Karl Jacobs wrote: > I meant to type

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2020-07-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
PLA should have enough flex for the part of a cycloidal drive that has to flex. It also is pretty tough so wear would be a minimal issue. Just don't run it fast and/or under a bunch of pressure without some lube. I suspect a silicone grease made for plastics (like that sticky white stuff often

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2020-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2020 16:52:34 Karl Jacobs wrote: > I meant to type "Hubble", of course. > NP, I just figured that was its local nick-name. Its about out of giro's again, I sure hope that now with Elon doing our launches again, they can figure our how to get to it for more service calls.

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2020-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2020 16:47:28 Karl Jacobs wrote: > Hi Gene, > > 0.01 arcsec is way too high resolution. Unless you have a telescope > with 12.6m diameter (sin(delta) = 1.22 * lambda/D, with delta the > angle in radians, lambda the light wavelength (take green 500nm) and D > the diameter.)

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2020-07-18 Thread Bari
On 7/18/20 3:52 PM, Karl Jacobs wrote: I meant to type "Hubble", of course. Am 18.07.2020 um 22:47 schrieb Karl Jacobs: This is why you guys over the pond launched Hubbly into orbit. I like Hubbly more. ___ Emc-users mailing list

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2020-07-18 Thread Karl Jacobs
I meant to type "Hubble", of course. Am 18.07.2020 um 22:47 schrieb Karl Jacobs: > Hi Gene, > > 0.01 arcsec is way too high resolution. Unless you have a telescope > with 12.6m diameter (sin(delta) = 1.22 * lambda/D, with delta the angle > in radians, lambda the light wavelength (take green

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2020-07-18 Thread Karl Jacobs
Hi Gene, 0.01 arcsec is way too high resolution. Unless you have a telescope with 12.6m diameter (sin(delta) = 1.22 * lambda/D, with delta the angle in radians, lambda the light wavelength (take green 500nm) and D the diameter.) Even then, in extremely good skies from ground level, our atmosphere

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2020-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
Grettings all; Using one of these 6 wire, 12 volt elderly floppy stepper driver motors, as 4 wire on a to6600 driver I have a choice of fitting a sleeve over the driver hub on the motor shaft, which when cleaned off is 16.8mm in diameter, meaning the minimum tooth count for a GT2_3mm belt will