Archive:Tiefpunkts-CNC-Mill: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:24, 18 June 2015

CNC Mill Release status: experimental [box doku]
Description
Author(s)	tiefpunkt (Tiefpunkt)
Last Version	v0.1

Severin brought his CNC mill to the lab a while back. It's beginnings can be found here: CNC-Fräse

Date	Activities
2015-04-24	Screwed down the main table
2015-04-26	Rebuild Y axis motor plate in OpenSCAD, and lasercut it.
2015-04-30	Printed new guides for the Y axis belt [1] -> A little to big. Screwed new Y axis motor plate into place. Belt a little too loose. Need to place pulleys a little higher.
2015-05-03	Printed parts to hold 2 endstops on the Y axis. Endstops are in place now, but not yet connected.
2015-06-14	Connected endstops to Arduino controller Updated grbl on Arduino to 0.8c (custom compiled, to accommodate for different pin configurations, and homing only on X and Y [2]) Testdrives Problems: Noise on the endstops, triggered e.g. when starting the spindle -> maybe bigger pullups? Right X endstop cannot be triggered, due to size of the z-axis sled

Executing on the machine:
- Universal G-Code Sender - Java, requires rxtx library, on OS X follow [3] to install
- grblgui not tested

G-Code
- Wikipedia
- RegRap includes information on what commands are supported by grbl. Also has shorter Cheat Sheet

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 == Workflow ==
+* Lists of software tools
+** http://www.freebyte.com/cad/cadcam.htm#cadcamsystems
+** http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/CAM
 * Generating G-Code:
 ** [http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave.html#download F-Engrave] - DXF to GCode, single pass only
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 ** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxf2gcode/ dxf2gcode] (not tested yet)
 ** [http://www.thuijzer.nl/image2gcode/ image2gcode] online, not tested yet
+* PyCAM (not tested)
+** http://pepijndevos.nl/2012/04/23/fast-pycam-on-mac-using-homebrew.html
+* http://simplegcoder.com/ (not tested)
+* https://sites.google.com/site/heekscad/home/Details (not tested)
 * Executing on the machine: