<div dir="ltr">I sourced mine from Amazon, from china, a bit slow<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 June 2015 at 12:39, Tim Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eclipse@sucs.org" target="_blank">eclipse@sucs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 03/06/2015 12:28, Gerrit Niezen wrote:<br>
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<div>Dave: Thanks for the link to the Youtube videos,
they’re now on my to-watch list. I should probably have
mentioned that I’m specifically looking for decent open-source
software - for closed-source stuff I’d probably use Fusion 360.</div>
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I came across a different video from them a few days ago and did
similar.<br>
PyCAM is supposed to offer that level of features, but is very slow
and crashey when you want to be that fancy, it uses ungodly amounts
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<div>Tim/Justin: I tried generating the toolpaths using
the demo model loaded on PyCAM - it took 6 hours on my Ubuntu
box (but at least didn’t crash). I wish Heeks had a better UI.</div>
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The Heeks UI really is its downfall, I have generated 3D gcode in
Heeks before though so I can show you how to do it if you want. The
other disadvantage is is that it doesn't do multi passes, although
you can to a certain extend get similar results with a bit of work
and setting abusing.<span class=""><br>
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<div>Suggestions for buying end mills - eBay?</div>
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My 6mm, 1mm and 0.5mm ones came from aliexpress<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div>On 2 Jun 2015, at 20:02, David Davies-Day
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<div>Ive watched a few of these Ny CNC
videos, always quality informatiom.</div>
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<div>There is a 30 day demo of
sprutcam...</div>
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<div>No idea what the cost is, hopefully,
for now at least, the 30 day demo will help you
get the results your looking for.</div>
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<div>Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] 3D
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<div>On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:46
+0100, Gerrit Niezen wrote:<br>
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> What can I use to mill 3D shapes on the CNC
mill? Looking at the<br>
> hackspace website<br>
> (<a href="http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Equipment/CNCRouter" target="_blank">http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Equipment/CNCRouter</a>),
IIRC it can be<br>
> done using HeeksCNC, but it's not supported
or developed anymore. Same<br>
> with PyCAM. <br>
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Heeks or PyCAM were the best ones we found that
could do profiling.<br>
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> Oh, and can I mill hardwood (e.g. walnut or
cherry) with our CNC mill?<br>
The harder the material the slower you have to
go, i think technically<br>
you could do aluminium with it if you have the
right bits.<br>
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For profiling you will need some round/ball nose
end mills, which i do<br>
not think we have any of, all ours are
square/flat nose. a few different<br>
sizes if you want to get it done in a reasonable
time too.<br>
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