Hello JeffD
I am already signed up with that forum but have such a wide range of
hobbies/activities that I am rarely on it. I am not too familiar with DOS
and in any case my Foamworks software will only run under Windows. I have to
admit to finding Linux a bit short on intuitivity and have not worked out
how to connect it with the internet yet. I am using it on a HP PC which I
re-motherboarded after my mate gave up on it. I guess that when I finish my
router/mill mechanics I will be spending some time on the forum. Meshcam has
surprised me with its do-ability - very impressive. I got into cutting blue
foam on an aerospace project at work and went on to design and build my own
machine. I have stepperised a small indexing table for making gears etc and
plan to make large model aircraft fuselages in section on the router/mill
maybe in some applications using the indexer. My foam cutter uses Igus
plastic bushings but I am designing a hybrid ball raced linear system for
the P/M. Having got back out of retirement part time I am now able to fund
this particular aspect of my hobbies to some extent.
It is to hear from you.
Ken

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From: meshcam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:meshcam@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Jeff Demand
Sent: 19 April 2009 17:30
To: meshcam@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [meshcam] Anyone here?



Ken,

As Randy has mentioned the www.meshcam\forum is more active. Come on over,
register and make a real post and the evil moderators will let you in. (I'm
one of them :-)

Concerning the foam cutter pauses, Mach handles these well from what I've
heard (untried new computer sitting downstairs which should run Mach). I
use plain old DOS controller software and it seems fine, but these programs
are dismal to fatal if run from a windows dos box, pure dos only. No
pauses, but radical changes in feed rate caused by MeshCams tendency to
make lots of very short moves.

jeffD

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On 4/18/2009 at 11:33 PM Ken Simmonds wrote:

>Hello Jessey
>I bought Meshcam as I am designing a 3Axis router/mill. I export STL files
>from my Solid model and find that Meshcam processes these very well I then
>run them on EMC2 using Linux operating system supported by Routout. My
>machine design is almost finished and I am slowly amassing hardware. I
>started off with a home built foam cutter and can replicate three axis
>operation by using one XY frame for - yes you guessed - X & Y and one of
>the
>axis on the other frame to represent the Z axis. The live virtual imaging
>on
>EMC2 shows exactly what the cutter of my machine will do and I have been
>running simulations. I do find the forum interesting at times but don't go
>on very often. By the way you can download Ubunti EMC2 for free and do
lots
>of simulation without having a machine although I do believe you can run
it
>under windows off a disk if you prefer. You can buy a disk and support
from
>Routout for just a few pounds support although as I said before you can
>download Ubunti EMC2 for free. I went for Linux as my foam cutter software
>will only run on Windows which constantly introduces physically very short
>but plainly audible pauses in the work process. I don't want this in 3Axis
>working. I am told that this stuttering is inevitable with the way Windows
>works. I am very much a DIY merchant and therefore probably won't be able
>to
>help with questions specific to your machine. However, if you get lonely
>(in
>an engineering sense of course) then feel free to email or skype me -
>rocket.scientist - for a chat. I do hope that all works out for you.
>Regards
>Ken
>PS how does your Taig CNC Milling machine controller make sense of Meshcam
>files?
>
>
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>Subject: [meshcam] Anyone here?
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>
>Hello,
>
>I just joined this group today in the hopes that I'd see some active
>discussions about the MeshCam 3D software but it seems that there hasn't
>been any posts here for the last 7 months?
>
>We haven't received our Taig CNC Milling machine or the MeshCam 3D
software
>that was ordered with it yet, so my question here is if I'm in the right
>forum?
>
>Although I don't have any real questions as yet on how to use this
>software,
>I thought I might see some written examples of some simple projects that I
>could run and build on.
>
>Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>jessey
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