Here is the first part made on the converted M Head BridgePort that I finished a few days ago. The plate is 3/8 and milled in one pass. I'm runing Mach3 with Centent 10uS drives and ~45V with 720oz motors. The drive is 2:1 with original lead screws with good backlash:) it dosen't reflect in the things that i'm making now.

One Q?
I did a DXF from Rhino and converted with in Mach. The big arc in the back of the plate is pefect but the sides as you can see are lines. How do I make smooth sides?

I've never used Rhino, but in autocad there's a setting for arc/circular resolution. It might be in rhino's export to dxf feature, or in one of the options tabs somewhere?

That's just my stab in the dark.

After looking around more I saw the "Polyline Max Angle" setting. It was at 10 deg. The lower the number the more lines I get.

Thanks for the tip (jkeyser14)

Cool. Looks like a great start. Congrats.

-jd

Yeah, I got a BIG smile now :wee:

That's pretty sweet.

Do you have a thread on your build? I'd like to see some pics of your machine and how you chose to mount the motors and such. Details are good.

Looking good!

Scott

I recently completed a BP clone CNC, Mach3, Geckos, giant Nema 42 steppers that were on the machine when I bought it with a missing controller.

Here's the first part that really used CNC for something I couldn't have done on a manual machine, a rocket nose cone for my son's science project, using the mill like a lathe.

Its funny, it looks better in real life, for the some reason the picture makes the machining marks look less regular than they really are (yeah right, but at least I believe it).

Paul T.

http://www.power-t.com/spring/download/NoseCone1.jpg

That's pretty sweet.

Do you have a thread on your build? I'd like to see some pics of your machine and how you chose to mount the motors and such. Details are good.

Looking good!

Scott


Yeah, what Scott said. Lets see some pics and some details of what you did and how you did it. Maybe start a new thread just for your machine build and pictures.

The controll box still needs work. I don't have the Z finished yet. I'll take some pics in the morning and start a thread.