Vectric Customer

I'm still trying to get some bugs worked out with my rotary and need a bit of clarification. Attempting to cut litho's (using aspire) into some white PVC pipe. The pipe I am using (Sched 40) had an Inside Diameter of 4 inches and is .25 thick. When in Wrapped Job Setup do I set the Cylinder Dimensio...

So I purchased a 60 deg vcarve bit off that auction site that listed this as having a 1/4" 6mm shank. was going to chuck this up into my 1/4" precision collet, but no go. thing slid right out...guess that's what I get for trying to save a buck based on a recommendation from a person I know... Any of...

Never mind... found it.

I took a few pictures of some different hardwoods I have and wanted to add them into the wood species folder within aspire 3.0, but can't locate exactly where they are. in 2.5, they were in the texture folder under Aspire, but now????

Awesome work Jim...always nice to see what you have done.

btw, whatever became of that DDG that you were modeling?

Doesn't matter if CV is on or off. Doesn't make any difference if cutting at a 45 deg angle, 0 deg or 90 deg so with that in mind, I started watching the rotary very closely. Seems as if the belt on the reduction setup has a little slop and at times also binds. back to the drawing board

Now that I have the rotary axis zipping along just fine, running into another snag. Orientation is X axis is bottom to top with +X at the top. and A rotates along Y Left to Right. 2 problems in this picture. First, I had wanted to cut a border around the carving. I had the system set to cut at 120IP...

Thanks Tex,

That was it. didn't have .0001 set in A-rotation in settings screen.

Re-checked and already had "A Rotations Enabled" checked and to use Radius for Feedrate. Under Settings, anything associated with Z was set to .0001 and yet it all still runs at a snails pace.

Grrrrr

While away from work this week, I am attempting to finally get out and try some litho's in pvc pipe. My rotary seems to be running terribly slow even with a feed-rate of 150 ipm. on flat stock, this would zip right through. In Mach 3 under settings -> Motor Tuning for my A axis, I have 35.555555 set...

Joe,

Link you provided for your page: http://www.3droutedsigns.com doesn't seem to be working well atleast for me it isn't at the 3 computers I tried it on plus my phone.

This is nice. My neighbor across the street brews and bottles his own and this would be something neat for him.

As for how is the bottom attached, it almost looks like insert tab A into Slot B and held in with glue.

When doing my lithos, I set: max carving depth to .21 Line spacing to 10% Check Invert light and dark areas select .0031 ball nose as bit. Z Zero to top surface of material X0Y0 set to lower left corner. Cut angle set to 315 degrees On machine, chuck up a 60 Deg vcarve bit, load the gcode and run th...

I like it.. looks nice. and kind of along the same lines of edge lit signs, have any of you cut into the poly-carbon acrylic that is most often used on motorcycle windshields? I have been thinking about pulling mine off and doing something along the lower side of it and also edge-light with led's

Very nice pens. Especially like the 3rd one "Stencil" Did you cast in Alumilite or other resin such as Silmar 41 and then turn down to final size on the lathe?