Hive8 G0704 CNC Build

[hive8]

Hello everyone together... I wanted to document my build here, i ordered the mill from Grizzly on April 23rd and got it delivered today, Box everything seems fine and i will put it in the shop to look it over... Ordering and delivery was really smooth and fast. I will post pictures later...

Now its time to take it appart, clean everything and start the conversation...

What i wanted to do is the following...

Now:
CNC build with Keiling Digital Drivers based on Hoss Heavy Digital Kit...
Threatmill Motor Conversation with Belt

Later:
New Mounts for the Stepper Motors
New Screws to get the blacklash out...
Oiler
Mist Cooler or Fluid Cooling
Enclosure

[hoss2006]

Welcome to the club hive! Man, sounds like you ordered at the perfect time.
Make sure to read thru the manual, there is good basic info in there on setting up the mill
that many seem to overlook.
Hoss

[nolage]

And let us know if the 3 bolt mod is already done or not

[Mad Welder]

... I wanted to document my build here.......What i wanted to do is the following...

Now:
CNC build with Keiling Digital Drivers based on Hoss Heavy Digital Kit...
Threatmill Motor Conversation with Belt

Later:
New Mounts for the Stepper Motors
New Screws to get the blacklash out...
Oiler
Mist Cooler or Fluid Cooling
Enclosure

Hi there hive8 welcome, you're off to a good start since you're prioritising….. And like you’re going to do I used my conversion to make better mounts too….

Keep loads of pics flowing too….

[hive8]

Will be taking the mill apart on the weekend, its still in the box, kkk...

Just wanted to update and show what i am going to make with it mainly, some laser modules i have been planning for some time now.

Btw the dimensions are mm, kkk

[fatal-exception]

Nice design and renderings. What are the lasers for?

Your planning steppers rather than servos?

Paul

[hive8]

These lasers are modules that i use for shows i do here in Los Angeles... But why not sell them later if people like them . I am going to Stepper route with the Digital Keiling Drivers 5060D right now containplating about the Computer and Software Setup...

Option 1:
Mach 3 ($149) with a Ethernet Smooth Stepper ($189)

Option 2:
LinuxCNC (former EMC2 + (free)) with a parallel port
i have a amd PC i can use for that if not i would need to get one of these ATOM CPU boards that everyone is using.

Since i want to do HSM path not sure if the parallel port can handle it, i have been reading it generates a lot of GCode...

But i will know and see in the next 1 - 2 weeks...

[Mad Welder]

Yeah the Smooth Stepper (and I see you're quoting the Eithernet version price) will rid the host PC of the processing and should definitely help you towards your HSM....and I love the renderings, what CAD rendering are you using?

[hive8]

I use Solidworks 2012, i have been using it since the year 2000 when i saw it first and fell in love, i did a project for this company Stark Mounting Systems (Welcome to STARK Spannsysteme GmbH)... changed there internal system for dealing with media (Catalogs, Graphics, Animations, 3D Catalogs, Website and so on), but then i moved to Los Angeles... kkk.

Rendering was also done in Solidworks, but i will give this new program a try called Keyshot 3 (KeyShot - 3D Rendering and Animation software) and for CAD i heard a lot of good things about SpaceClaim (SpaceClaim|3D Direct Modeling Software for Engineering, Manufacturing and CAE), i wanted to try that as well... its insane how fast it is and what you can do with it...

[hoss2006]

Thanks for the links, might just have to try them to pretty up my models.
Hoss

[hive8]

Hoss if you need any help with models, CAD, Rendering or WEB let me know i am more then welcome to help you out... just a way of giving back since you help a lot in my reseach for the mill and the CNC part...

[Mad Welder]

I use Solidworks 2012....but i will give this new program a try called Keyshot 3...

Yeah cheers for the links and Keyshot is also offered with Alibre as a plugin option for rendering too it's a pretty darn good piece of software as when I was researching my CAD/CAM software I looked into Alibre....but now I use Rhino (well I'm still learning) and I bought it for it's 3D free form surface modelling capabilities it’s flippin brilliant….as I couldn’t download an evaluation version of Solidworks, does it have the ability to create surfacing drawings?