On Saturday 24 November 2012 14:52:39 Ben Potter did opine: > That one's actually a bought model (Number 50217 from vectorart3d.com. > One of the first pieces I did on the router - since then I've got a lot > better at modelling from scratch, but it's very time consuming, and > sadly - isn't really viable for one-offs. > Copyrights notwithstanding, I have seen some stuff I would love to scan using the mill to raster scan at 5 to 10 thou steps, but then I recall the one time I did that, it was about a week to a very poor copy at 50 thou steps/pixels. And obviously an artistic train wreck. My current probe is designed to follow gentle curves, and would need a tip sized to match the final carving bit. A renesas it isn't. Material removal wise, a probe with interchangeable tips, a 1/4" and a ball mill to match, then an 1/8 inch & mill to match, and about 5 repeats later you might have a final file that looked pretty good.
> One of these days I'll find time to build a larger router - at 2'x 3' > it's too small for most of the stuff I really want to do with it (read: > can make money doing). I hear that! > Alas, I think we've probably gone far enough offtopic now. I dunno, I always enjoy seeing the results of our work, even if I am basically a copy cat about things done here. What we should be better at doing is bottom posting, and trimming the stuff off the top that everyone has already read. :D Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! Let your conscience be your guide. -- Pope ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
