Are there ready-made programs for gantry milling machines or 3D printers?
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It's relatively easy to "make" a 3D scanner that delivers pretty good results. At least good enough for my project!
I have quite a lot of tools, some of them high quality and above all expensive 😭
However, I also feel the need to get a workshop trolley. If anyone doesn't know what it is, this thing right there.
I now have several options, but I would first like to see if and how the option can be implemented.
The tools are equipped with special foam mats that fit the tools perfectly.
I'm wondering if there are any ready-made open-source programs specifically designed for this. I have a DIY gantry milling machine, and I also have some components (and the gantry milling machine I would use) for a DIY 3D printer.
So I would scan the tools, position the tools with the program, equip them with the usual extras (that's why I use a program that is specifically designed for this) and then produce them.
Does anyone know of such a program? Has anyone had experience with it?
I am grateful for any help.
First of all, no, the other options are out of the question for now. I won't be happy with cube mats, hand-milled mats, or non-slip mats!!!!!!!!!! Having the mats manufactured is relatively time-consuming, so the obvious option is to do it yourself. Besides, having them manufactured is quite expensive.
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I know these mats. They are also called moss rubber mats.
With me in the place is a company that produces exactly such fittings.
However, you will not be able to work the rubber with a milling cutter. That’s what happens when you touch it. Except with a round knife. I think with a sharp knife it would go, but you need many different knives. Or with a laser. Also with a water cutter.
However, if you want to use another material, it’s going to happen.
For a milling tool you use a CAD program, draw the object there and then convert it into a machine-readable code. With 3D printers and some milling and cutting plotters, the G code is. Others use special programs from the manufacturer with their own code.
Basically, you only have to create a black-and-white photo of the Werzeuge in 2D for the cuts. Then there are CAD programs that can create a vector graphics that you then insert into the desired object and adjust the depth.
I do not know specific programs that bring all this in one step.
I have seen similar times with a customer who cuts objects from metal with millions of euros. It was as described above.
Photo vector graphics laser code.
This is solid foam, no moss gum!!!!!
Amazing that many people think. I don’t know why.
It is a relatively solid foam that yields little. Hardener than a dry sponge, not as hard as pumice.
Sorry, I just don’t think of anything really fitting. It’s like polystyrene, just a little softer. It also does not break like polystyrene, but goes back to the initial position.
I just can’t describe it well.
2D scan of tools should be enough for such things. It’s about the outer contours of the tools, right? Even a photo would go when you know the dimensions of the tool.
Then you can construct such a mat in FreeCAD, with cutouts for some tools.
How to use them on a mill, you need to know that you already use them for other things.
Hello,
you meet on a theme that doesn’t give much in the net..
There are companies that make exactly this..at order…with multi-layered matte, where to be glued together for closing..sowith a matte where has a floor and perfectly fits for the workman with pockets where you take out the tool comfortably and sensually.
these inlay mats are usually cut with a water jet..very precise cuts..
whether this is being milled? for certain materials with special milling cutters.
in some contours in very soft materials.such as PU foam..matratzen e.g. is cut with a hot wire..or holding oscillating knife.
By the way: Wera Tool Car..😍😍 is also on my willham list
It was an example. It’s good, but it’s too expensive.
yes I say so..the more important..you can’t work with the car..it only contains the tools..more not.
just fit together the simple 🙂
You can trace the outlines of the tools with a vector graphics program and then import them as SVG into a CAD program.
“inkscape” is suitable for this. The graphic is imported from the flatbed scanner where the tool was placed on it and then the outlines are traced with a vector line.
You can also treat the image by GIMP in such a way that the tool appears completely black. To do this, you have to put a white paper over it during scanning so that you get white and “not white”. Inkscape can then automatically trace the outline.
Then you trigger “Simnplify” several times to delete frayed and smallest details in the outline.
After you have this in the CAD program, you can then scale it appropriately. Here then select a bit larger than the tool, because the cutter presses the foam to the side when milling, the pocket is always somewhat smaller than the CAM processor.
Of course, you should put extra pockets “cross” over the tool pocket shape to remove holes for your fingers. A few circles laid half over the outline work well.
Have you finished the scanner? Where he’s so easy to make?
In addition, cutting forces also occur in the milling. That’s why you take ball circulation spindles (from 1,000 euros per piece) or have no precision.
https://youtu.be/MSY_d9907QY?si=lR31f-Y3T0pWNm8z&t=621
The question of precision makes sense only when precision is necessary. For foam cuts rather not.
Sorry, but the sentence doesn’t make any sense. The ball circulation spindle is not taken because of the cutting forces and also costs no 1000 € per piece, especially since it also depends on the dimensions.
Keep going.
I don’t have to say that, I know because it was my job to build machines with linear guides.
These prices are paid for a Boschrexroth spindle, but they are not built in hobby systems.