GearHeads Forum

John:

  the "W" doesnt do anything here, that might be local mapping doing something though...

Art

Hi Art,
I don't think you intended the "W" button to send stuff to the workbench just change the view - right?
John

Hi Art,
Yes I'm sure you're right and I can see where placement could be a real issue.  The "W" button on the project screen doesn't work for me but the "send to workbench" does.

John

John:

  I will add the tab issue to the wish list, its complex as to why I cant easily do that. Im trying also to stay pretty general
in the new CNC operations as in future there may be much more than gears to be concerned about .. but Ill consider
the issue, in the meantime Id test with very few tabs..say 3 .. and make them thin. I suspect they wont be much of an issue
to clean up ..

Thx
Art

Hi Art,
With enough button pushing I found it!!  function-shift-control works to rotate in my machine.  Happy Camper!

John

Hi Art,
I've been playing with the workbench and its great!  The control - shift doesn't do rotation for me but I have been able to do a workaround with a magic mouse and setting of preferences. Would be nice if a key combination would work.

With some rotation applied I can see the tabs and I can see that tabs are left on the surface of the teeth - would it be possible to put the tabs in the gullet where you don't need as much precision?

Loving' it!

John

Hay Art,

Just changed the color field as you suggested and all is working fine, thank you for that.
I'm just playing around with the new cad and tried  nesting of gears.
I created a large gear and small pinon. I placed the pinon inside of what will be the spoke cavity.
I changed the order of cutting to the pinon first and the large gear second and ran the post command. all the rapids and tool paths appeared correct, however I have not put the file to mach3 test yet. This nesting feature looks great and will save me a lot of waste wood.

Have a great day

Jerry

Good morning Art, John
Been away from the computer awhile and have not had time to post my file, so thank you John for letting Art know our issues. I will adjust my color field also.
Thanks Art, John

Jerry

John:

You can duplicate as many as you like. You can send the same gear or collection of gear any number of times, the workbench will hold
an unlimited number of gears even if they are copies of gears already there.

  I just uploaded a correction for the rotation issue. ( Ctrl and Shift are the modifier keys for rotation. ).

Thx
Art

Hi Art,
Here's the file I've been playing with.  It might be nice to duplicate certain parts as is necessary in a grasshopper escapement - not a biggie.

PS The biggest button on the "gCode post control" is the "post" button but somehow I managed to miss it for awhile!!

John