Rotary Tutorial

Topics related to wrapped rotary machining in Aspire or VCarve Pro
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Rotary Tutorial

Post by Rcnewcomb »

I'm in the process of putting together a Rotary Machining Tutorial. This is a work in progress. I'll bump the thread whenever I make major additions. I hope to have it completed by March 2010.

Please PM me with corrections or suggestions.

The link to the tutorial is: http://humblesticks.com/cnc-rotary-tutorial.html
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Re: Rotary Tutorial

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Magnifico tutorial GRACIAS

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Randall,

Many thanks for all the hard work, I am sure you have saved a lot of people (me included) many hours of trial and error.


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Awesome! :D I would encourage Vectric to add this to their Technical Archive. Thank you so much for doing this.
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This is excellent stuff Randall.

A great resource for those first delving into rotary work with Aspire.

Thanks for posting.

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Yes indeed Randall! Very usefull and well done. Keep it coming.
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Thanks Randell ! Now I really have no excuse, but to build a Rotary !! :evil: thanks alot :twisted:


great job :mrgreen:


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Randall

Thanks for the information, well done.

I am just starting to grasp all the various concepts, and this is a nice contribution to this forum.

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Ok, where's the "not worthy" smily!! Image

Nice work and thank you Mr. Newcomb :)
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Very well done Randall!!!
Thank you!

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Ditto all the above!!!

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Randall,
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Thanks,
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Very Nice Randall,
I don't know how I missed this post. It would have saved me some time.
Thanks for the effort,
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I've added additional material including a section on replicating an existing design in Aspire for rotary machining.

->Link
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Excellent work on the tutorial Randall. I plan to set up a rotray indexer soon, the parts are in the mail. The Aspire Rotary Wrapper, John Seiler's post http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 73&start=0, Bill Schober's post http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 62&start=0 and your tutorial have motivated me to get going.

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