Comments on: A clock from the machine!

By: DW

DW — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now **that’s** rapid prototyping!
Well done.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Very cool! I’m curious though.. couldn’t the software that translates the inkscape file into a tool path automatically account for tool width? (under the assumption it’s a complete cut, and there is some way to indicate it in inkscape [such as the colour black will be cut out]. This obviously would have limitations for surface detailing)

By: amackie

amackie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“couldn’t the software that translates the inkscape file into a tool path automatically account for tool width? (under the assumption it’s a complete cut, and there is some way to indicate it in inkscape [such as the colour black will be cut out]. This obviously would have limitations for surface detailing)”

I think you can account for it, I just didn’t use a tool at all the first time around. I believe GCodeTools used a default tool of width 0. The screenshot above shows a tool that I manually added after the cut, from Karl’s measurements of the routing bit used.