Hi Keith, firstly thanks for all these fantastic uploads. I have all the parts in my ebay basket to make this CNC machine and as of 25/1/2019 its around £200 without the timber.. I have a spare PC and have been running only Linux OS`s for 15 years.. Reliability is great... I only fly gliders and have been cutting my small wings by hand using a homemade hot wire cutter only and also covering in brown paper and water based varnish... I`m looking forward to starting the build... Once again thank you...
Hi, Heath Thank for the kind words. LinuxCNC is great for hot wire foam cutting if .you need any help just drop me a line, Let me know how it goes love to hear from a fellow enthusiast.
Thank you very much for your time and effort! :) Not everybody can afford pricey software. For a student like me this can save a lot, thus i can redirect more budget on hardware. Thanks again and waiting to see next tips :)
No, it's not possible. LinuxCNC is based on the Debian Linux Operating System and uses a special kernel called preempt. That's to allow it to work in real-time. It needs to be installed on its own machine. Old desktops with parallel ports work really well. I did run mine on an old Dell GX620 well over 10 years old and it ran perfectly. I'm now using the GRBL Mega 5X using the Arduino Mega and RAMPS board. I still use LinuxCNC on my CNC router with the old Dell and it still runs just fine. Hope that answers your question
Dear Sir How do you make a wing with a profile on the root and another slightly different profile on the wing tips? for example the glider ¨le fish¨ It has SB96V in the root and SB96VS in wing tip. What if we want to add a slight twist to the tip of the wing? Is it possible to see a demonstration? Your videos on the cnc foam cutter are fantastic! Grateful Vitor Lalanda
Hi Vitor Thank you for your kind comments. Its quite easy to do differnt profiles for the root and tip just select them in the software and thats it. The software takes care of generating the correct g-code. Adding a twist or wash out as its know as it easy as well. I'm making a new video on using Jedicut and David the Swarfer Python code, both have the option to add this. Should be up in a few days. David's Python code is here github.com/swarfer/winggcode and just needs Python 2.7 to run. If you're on a Mac or Linux then thats most likely installed already, for Windows just download form here www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2715/ David has instruction on how to run the code. I'll be showing in the new video as well. Hope that helps
Keith Howlette Hi! Manny thanks! You vídeos are verificar detailed, i am thinking of doing a CNC like RUclips, i am not good até software, i use Windows on my PC!
Software is the most challenging but as you practice with more foam it gets easier. Have plenty of spare foam , I used many pieces before I made my first wing. Start with a simple wing to get experience. It's very satisfying to make your own wing. Keith
bonjour, oui les ailes balayées sont possibles. Réglez simplement l'option "Leading Edge Sweep" et cela devrait le faire. J'espère que cela a du sens en utilisant Google translate, Merci pour vos gentils commentaires
Thanks so much! I started assembling mine last night. I have 2 of the vertical towers about done and my pc is ready with linux cnc on it. pics instagram.com/thenated0g . Maybe you could help with something else related. How do you make .dat files from a shape. After you posted your written setup last week and i found that nice free gcode webpage you linked, it started me thinking about how you could use that to cut out profiles of fuselages. Basically no taper, but how do you get a svg or graphic of a fuselage to the .dat coordinate file that his webpage wants? Seems like an easy way to "hack" the tool he made for custom shapes.
Looking good on the vertical tower. I think the way to do it maybe first do the profile of the fuselage in DXF format and then covert to dat. There's few videos on RUclips explaining the process. Jedicut will import a DXF but I need to investigate that a bit more. I'll do some test next week and let you know Keith
2023 - Still useful! :)
Thanks.
Hi Keith, firstly thanks for all these fantastic uploads. I have all the parts in my ebay basket to make this CNC machine and as of 25/1/2019 its around £200 without the timber..
I have a spare PC and have been running only Linux OS`s for 15 years.. Reliability is great... I only fly gliders and have been cutting my small wings by hand using a homemade hot wire cutter only and also covering in brown paper and water based varnish... I`m looking forward to starting the build... Once again thank you...
Hi, Heath Thank for the kind words. LinuxCNC is great for hot wire foam cutting if .you need any help just drop me a line, Let me know how it goes love to hear from a fellow enthusiast.
Thank you very much for your time and effort! :)
Not everybody can afford pricey software. For a student like me this can save a lot, thus i can redirect more budget on hardware.
Thanks again and waiting to see next tips :)
thank you so much very helpful vıdeo , thanks!
Are you running LinuxCNC on windows? is that possible?
No, it's not possible. LinuxCNC is based on the Debian Linux Operating System and uses a special kernel called preempt. That's to allow it to work in real-time. It needs to be installed on its own machine. Old desktops with parallel ports work really well. I did run mine on an old Dell GX620 well over 10 years old and it ran perfectly. I'm now using the GRBL Mega 5X using the Arduino Mega and RAMPS board. I still use LinuxCNC on my CNC router with the old Dell and it still runs just fine.
Hope that answers your question
Dear Sir
How do you make a wing with a profile on the root and another slightly different profile on the wing tips? for example the glider ¨le fish¨ It has SB96V in the root and SB96VS in wing tip.
What if we want to add a slight twist to the tip of the wing?
Is it possible to see a demonstration?
Your videos on the cnc foam cutter are fantastic!
Grateful
Vitor Lalanda
Hi Vitor
Thank you for your kind comments.
Its quite easy to do differnt profiles for the root and tip just select them in the software and thats it. The software takes care of generating the correct g-code. Adding a twist or wash out as its know as it easy as well. I'm making a new video on using Jedicut and David the Swarfer Python code, both have the option to add this. Should be up in a few days. David's Python code is here github.com/swarfer/winggcode and just needs Python 2.7 to run. If you're on a Mac or Linux then thats most likely installed already, for Windows just download form here www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2715/
David has instruction on how to run the code. I'll be showing in the new video as well.
Hope that helps
Keith Howlette
Hi!
Manny thanks!
You vídeos are verificar detailed, i am thinking of doing a CNC like RUclips, i am not good até software, i use Windows on my PC!
Software is the most challenging but as you practice with more foam it gets easier. Have plenty of spare foam , I used many pieces before I made my first wing. Start with a simple wing to get experience. It's very satisfying to make your own wing.
Keith
parabéns pelos vídeos que tem postado,tem aprendido muito com eles.
bonjour, oui les ailes balayées sont possibles. Réglez simplement l'option "Leading Edge Sweep"
et cela devrait le faire. J'espère que cela a du sens en utilisant Google translate, Merci pour vos gentils commentaires
For those wanting to integrate the gcode generation into LinuxCNC you need the python version of the code from github.com/swarfer/winggcode
Thanks David, great peice of software.
Thanks so much! I started assembling mine last night. I have 2 of the vertical towers about done and my pc is ready with linux cnc on it. pics instagram.com/thenated0g . Maybe you could help with something else related. How do you make .dat files from a shape. After you posted your written setup last week and i found that nice free gcode webpage you linked, it started me thinking about how you could use that to cut out profiles of fuselages. Basically no taper, but how do you get a svg or graphic of a fuselage to the .dat coordinate file that his webpage wants? Seems like an easy way to "hack" the tool he made for custom shapes.
Looking good on the vertical tower. I think the way to do it maybe first do the profile of the fuselage in DXF format and then covert to dat. There's few videos on RUclips explaining the process. Jedicut will import a DXF but I need to investigate that a bit more. I'll do some test next week and let you know
Keith
Keith Howlette thanks, I knew it was just not knowing what term to search for.