Just thought I would share a link to this video, which I think is an amazing use of a Shapeoko
It never ceases to amaze me how diabolically clever some people are! Great post Julien.
Wow, that is impressive and something different…thanks for sharing!
That is sheer GENIUS… Just goes to show the out of box thinking that goes on!!
It’s like a giant 120° Shapeoko spindexer. What a great idea!!!
That is really cool. It gets a guy thinking about building on his idea. Thanks for sharing.
I saw the video. What he does is amazing. The part I’m still wondering about is how you take a 3D model and build a gcode path from just one side. Is this a capability available in tools like Fusion or VCarve, or is he working some kind of voodoo?
no voodoo, plain old Fusion360 (or other 3D CAM tools)
MeshCAM for example has explicit support for the Nomad’s Flip Jig.
That’s pretty cool! Looks like I still have a ton to learn!
it is also not hard to just have a small tool read an STL file, rotate by X degrees and write a new STL file out… the math of that is basic linear algebra (3x3 matrix multiply)
From what I can see, he uses Meshmixer a free sculpting software from Autodesk to make his model and support and saved 3 files at 60 deg rotation and uses VCarve Desktop where he uncovers only the part he wants to carve out of the block. Unfortunately, VCarve lets you rotate a model by 90 deg increments only.
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