Gavin said:
Okay my thinking on this is that a person could build a machine to
carve waxes or metal. The necessary robot arms and servos are less than
$1000 complete with the computer program.
Well, you could , provided you’re a good machinist, electronics tech &
programmer.
You’d also need the tools those crafts & the job indicate.
To build a machine that would produce an acceptable product would take quite
sometime.
By the time you’d have gotten the necessary tools & skills to build a machine,
you probably
could have bought a top of the line model with all the bells & whistles.
Don’t get me wrong, it’d be lots of fun (I’m a tool dsgnr/mfgr also). But
sometimes you have
to decide what game you want to play & forget about the rest.
Dave Arens
By the way, there is now available an inexpensive three axis mill (less
than $4000) that comes with cad/cam software AND the unmentioned and
complicated controller, the device that translates the code sent to
the machine into the instructions that turn the motors on and off at the
proper times etc…
I’ll have to search through my mountain of mailings to find the source,
I remember it was developed at a university on the east coast.
David D. Arens wrote:
Gavin said:
Okay my thinking on this is that a person could build a machine to
carve waxes or metal. The necessary robot arms and servos are less than
$1000 complete with the computer program.
Well, you could , provided you’re a good machinist, electronics tech &
programmer.
You’d also need the tools those crafts & the job indicate.
To build a machine that would produce an acceptable product would take quite
sometime.
By the time you’d have gotten the necessary tools & skills to build a machine,
you probably
could have bought a top of the line model with all the bells & whistles.
Don’t get me wrong, it’d be lots of fun (I’m a tool dsgnr/mfgr also). But
sometimes you have
to decide what game you want to play & forget about the rest.
Dave Arens
Jeffrey Everett
Handmade 18K, 22K, and platinum gemstone fine jewelry.
Diamond setting, rubber/metal molds, casting, lapidary
Die and mold engraving, plastic patterns for casting.
Cad jewelry design, cad/cam milling scroll filigree…
P O Box 2057 Fairfield IA 52556 515-469-6250
Jeffrey Everett wrote:
By the way, there is now available an inexpensive three axis mill (less
than $4000) that comes with cad/cam software AND the unmentioned and
complicated controller, the device that translates the code sent to
the machine into the instructions that turn the motors on and off at the
proper times etc…
I’ll have to search through my mountain of mailings to find the source,
I remember it was developed at a university on the east coast.
David D. Arens wrote:
Gavin said:
Okay my thinking on this is that a person could build a machine to
carve waxes or metal. The necessary robot arms and servos are less than
$1000 complete with the computer program.
Well, you could , provided you’re a good machinist, electronics tech &
programmer.
You’d also need the tools those crafts & the job indicate.
To build a machine that would produce an acceptable product would take quite
sometime.
By the time you’d have gotten the necessary tools & skills to build a machine,
you probably
could have bought a top of the line model with all the bells & whistles.
Don’t get me wrong, it’d be lots of fun (I’m a tool dsgnr/mfgr also). But
sometimes you have
to decide what game you want to play & forget about the rest.
Dave Arens
Jeffrey Everett
Handmade 18K, 22K, and platinum gemstone fine jewelry.
Diamond setting, rubber/metal molds, casting, lapidary
Die and mold engraving, plastic patterns for casting.
Cad jewelry design, cad/cam milling scroll filigree…
P O Box 2057 Fairfield IA 52556 515-469-6250
orchid@ganoksin.com
Jeff,
I have no doubt that small wax milling machines driven by computer
will be economical and common within the next five years or so.Hopefully
like memory it will get less expensive as technology advances in the
field.I have decided to ride it out and wait but in the meantime I want
stay tuned in to what is going on with computerized model making…Since
I do not run the retail end of a business I have time to learn all I can
so that helps.I need to start in studying Cad Cam but wonder if
something else will not soon be available to make Cad Cam obsolete?
Gavin
Zerox has a machine that produces a solid polymer(platic??) result from a
cad drawing … . . saw a demo couple of years ago … item was about the
size of a football _,+…
Let’s don’t discuss the price!!
jim
At 01:16 AM 10/15/96 -0500, you wrote:
Jeffrey Everett wrote:
By the way, there is now available an inexpensive three axis mill (less
than $4000) that comes with cad/cam software AND the unmentioned and
complicated controller, the device that translates the code sent to
the machine into the instructions that turn the motors on and off at the
proper times etc…
I’ll have to search through my mountain of mailings to find the source,
I remember it was developed at a university on the east coast.
David D. Arens wrote:
Gavin said:
Okay my thinking on this is that a person could build a machine to
carve waxes or metal. The necessary robot arms and servos are less than
$1000 complete with the computer program.
Well, you could , provided you’re a good machinist, electronics tech &
programmer.
You’d also need the tools those crafts & the job indicate.
To build a machine that would produce an acceptable product would take
quite
sometime.
By the time you’d have gotten the necessary tools & skills to build a
machine,
you probably
could have bought a top of the line model with all the bells & whistles.
Don’t get me wrong, it’d be lots of fun (I’m a tool dsgnr/mfgr also). But
sometimes you have
to decide what game you want to play & forget about the rest.
Dave Arens
Jeffrey Everett
Handmade 18K, 22K, and platinum gemstone fine jewelry.
Diamond setting, rubber/metal molds, casting, lapidary
Die and mold engraving, plastic patterns for casting.
Cad jewelry design, cad/cam milling scroll filigree…
P O Box 2057 Fairfield IA 52556 515-469-6250
orchid@ganoksin.com
procedures
Jim Chambers wrote:
Zerox has a machine that produces a solid polymer(platic??) result from a
cad drawing … . . saw a demo couple of years ago … item was about the
size of a football
Let’s don’t discuss the price!!
jim
There are several (rapid prototyping) machines on the market now,
producing patterns utilizing several different technologies. The only
one that interests me, and that is useful to jewelers is the Sanders
Model Maker. $55,000. I’ve described it before, if you want info, let me
know…
Jeffrey Everett
Handmade 18K, 22K, and platinum gemstone fine jewelry.
Diamond setting, rubber/metal molds, casting, lapidary
Die and mold engraving, plastic patterns for casting.
Cad jewelry design, cad/cam milling scroll filigree…
P O Box 2057 Fairfield IA 52556 515-469-6250