[Swansea Hackspace] Anyone on the CNC today?

[djdavies83]

I'll look forward to them CAD tutorials, being tought it in college I'm quite fond of draftsight CAD, if I can dig up or scrounge course materials from past lecturer I'll look into doing a draftsight tutorial.

Ceri,  you still need that question flight - case?

Justin, I've got birthday money heading my way so I could pick up some ball end bits and leave them at the space, any recomendations/links?


I'll see you guys on thursday, might be bringing a friend who is interested.



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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com> </div><div>Date:02/02/2015  10:47  (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Anyone on the CNC today? </div><div>
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Initially I want a bunch of holes, and cut the piece out, from the sheet,

X-Y accuracy is, of course,  important, hens why I want to mill it.

ceri

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Justin Mitchell <
justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 19:17 +0000, Ceri Clatworthy wrote:
> > That's cool for PCB.
> > But what about from
> > CAD
> > I want to cut a sheet of plastic. ..
>
> Well, there are many ways to do things, depending on exactly what type
> of cuts are required, and how complex it is.
>
> For simple stuff I prefer to use jscut, you load an SVG (eg from
> inkscape), select the areas and the operation types.  I will write a
> tutorial for this soon, and probably do a workshop on it.
>
> You can also export gcode directly from inkscape if you have the right
> plugins, although i found it a bit harder to use than jscut.
>
> If what you need is contouring the tool to use is probably pyCAM, thats
> pretty much all it does, but does it in quite some depth. You would also
> need some ball-nose end mills, which we dont have any of.
>
> The other choice is to use HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC, which is tim clarks
> favourite, so i will leave him to do a tutorial on that one :)
>
>
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