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by Alanb6448
Mon Dec 07, 2015 2:29 pm
Forum: Auggie: Augmented Machine Controller
Topic: Auggie Early posts
Replies: 66
Views: 48291

Re: Auggie Early posts

Hi everyone,

Please help me clear up a confusion. Is Auggie part of the latest release of gearotic 2 (the 2.30050 I downloaded the other day) only I cannot seem to find it in there. If so how do I enable it? I have just completed my version of an open builds OX machine running off a pokeys57cnc ...
by Alanb6448
Sat Aug 22, 2015 9:58 pm
Forum: Arduino Laser Control
Topic: Lasers - general chat.
Replies: 23
Views: 76165

Re: Lasers - general chat.

Hello everyone,

I am keen to fit a laser cutter head to my newly built ox (gantry based) xy router (700 x 500 mm size). However I cannot fix a large tube on my cutter head or on the so I wonder if can I fix it stationary somewhere else and use optic fibre to connect to my machine head? Has anyone ...
by Alanb6448
Thu Aug 20, 2015 5:03 pm
Forum: Suggestions for Future
Topic: Constrain Gear shaft centres on a path
Replies: 1
Views: 3657

Constrain Gear shaft centres on a path

I would like to be able to lay out a train of gears so that they mesh and that their shaft centres lie on a general open or closed path on a plane in 2D space (by default the Z=0 plane). I can do it manually but it would be nice to have a Gearotic option to automatically constrain the shaft ...
by Alanb6448
Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:59 pm
Forum:
Topic: Decorating internal gears and scripting
Replies: 6
Views: 4743

Re: Decorating internal gears and scripting

Thanks again,

I do not yet have a 4th axis for my OX cnc still have to make one so 4th axis there is not possible yet. However I can cut 4th axis using my cnc based rose engine as I have 6 axis movements on that. I was thinking of using the OX for all the gears but will give the rose engine a go ...
by Alanb6448
Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:51 pm
Forum:
Topic: Decorating internal gears and scripting
Replies: 6
Views: 4743

Re: Decorating internal gears and scripting

Thanks Mooselake and ArtF for the replies. I have been watching with great interest the videos about auggie and I guess that I had that in mind when asking the question. I am looking forward to its release I did not realise it was so imminent.

Regarding the candle holder :) it was a disappointment ...
by Alanb6448
Sun Aug 16, 2015 5:57 pm
Forum:
Topic: Decorating internal gears and scripting
Replies: 6
Views: 4743

Decorating internal gears and scripting

Hi everyone,

Having used Gearotic for the first time I am quite new to this so bear with me please, although I am not a newcomer to cnc and have written my own gcode programs in the past.

I have started to use gearotic 2 because I have in mind several projects (I too am getting more interested in ...