I have been looking at rapid prototyping recently i.e. 3D printers and RepRap community. Browsing this site I found a 3D printers forum and would you believe it some genius has come up with the idea of using a cnc mill as the basis of a 3D printer.
Add a print head (controlled fine glue gun) to the spindle a control card to drive it, an add-on to Mach3 and away you go, can’t wait to build one
What a wonderful world we live in!!!
Mike
Unless you have a very fast CNC machine, it's not optimal for 3d printing. X and Y axes on 3d printers are typically belt driven and have rapids in the 500-1000 ipm range. Print speeds are often 300+ipm. Printing will take forever if you're running at normal mill/router speeds.
Skrubol
Thanks for the info, as I said I have little knowledge regarding 3d printing, Have a look at the site the man is based in Turkey and seems to have it all worked out!!!!
Mike
What site?
Exactly where? Your link is missing to the site!
Forum/other machines/ 3D printers/Mach3 as 3d Printer Software .
The first post has a link (small tutorial) to a blog site where all will be explained, he also makes parts for conversion here www gnexlab.com
Mike
seemecnc isn't doing conversions, but their stuff is Mach 3 based. They have a Yahoo forum (ugh,) with a bit of discussion of using Mach 3 to control 3d printers.
Their hardware is pretty cheap too, especially if you have a PC with Mach and the electronics already.
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