Ok post above made me think that I might need to reiterate the full idea.
I want to have a larger scale machine for cutting prime EPS blanks for surfboards, cutting plugs for composite vaccum bagging, and at most in the future I might retrofit it for cutting balsa although that is a secondary concearn.
The actual machine will have a MIG welded steel frame that will sit on the concreate floor and will have demensions on the order of X x Y x Z of around
8ft x 4ft x 5ft in a configuration like this but with a few adjustments in the cutting, materials, and layout for better stability and to eliminate flexing.
http://www.demandhotwire.com/twister.html
My primary questions now are
Size, type, torque, power of stepper motors?
Driver boards? Can I just build up 4 or 5 of the boards from Electronic Utopia? or do I have to go with something better like Gecko or Other?
Ballscrews or something like the Ball linear track system ?
Best program to use? I have access to Mach2, DeskCNC, turboCNC? Any suggestions on something that can control the motors and the rotating center section well.
Accuracy the best I can afford for under like a $thousand all together for the project.
I already have the materials for the frame and hopefully the motors above that I bought will work, also have all the computer stuff I need including power supplies(computer and otherwise) but dont have the Driver Boards/4axis5axis Driver setup?
Once again thank you for all of your help so far and the brainstorming and the jokes, VIPER, Fusion, Mac Knife
thanks again guys much luv.
All suggestions and setting me straight are more than welcome. Love the pain!!!
ashley