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  #121  
Old Sat 11 February 2012, 08:10
PEU
Just call me: Pablo
 
Buenos Aires
Argentina
mardus kreutz are open source stepper drives
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  #122  
Old Sat 11 February 2012, 08:23
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
On the left it says Mardus (Marić Dušan) - Kreutz

Looking for some drives to start off, I found those and discovered that I met Mardus some years ago. A phone call and I was at his house to discover his adventure about learning how to build a powerful stepper drive. Along with Kreutz on cnczone they planned and released schematics for these drives.
These drives were used on my first smaller machine and also on my MechMate for 6 months. when they got replaced with bipolar drives, for cool running and more torque. Recently my friend developed a bipolar MardusKreutz using L6203 chips, its still in testing but will run his mechmate when its finished.

In honor to my friend Mardus I put that on the left side of my MechMate. Of course regular Mechmate decal is on the right


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  #123  
Old Sat 11 February 2012, 08:40
Johannescnc
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Hannover, DE
Germany
Thanks... I found the thread on cnczone. I've done some research on drives, but never heard of this.
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  #124  
Old Sat 11 February 2012, 14:51
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
I also made these huge numbers and a small house for a play "Mileva Maric Einstein"

layers were assembled with pegs and LED lights installed inside, foam/plywood so they are light and can be carried around with ease in the show.






Mechmate cutting these numbers

These two years making and working with Mechmate were great, and I hope that with gaining experience I could return a favor to community!
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  #125  
Old Sat 11 February 2012, 14:59
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
Aaaand a bunch of these "I don't know what it is" parts. Cut from 30mm thick PE sheet 1x1m , around 163 parts from that sheet.



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  #126  
Old Wed 15 February 2012, 11:31
jehayes
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Whidbey Island, Washington
United States of America
Danilo:

Thanks for the update. You have inspired me to get cracking on a number of my own projects.
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  #127  
Old Thu 16 February 2012, 14:18
PEU
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
I would make a very nice marbles labyrinth with them
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  #128  
Old Thu 16 February 2012, 14:51
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
Well they were all gone the next day when I delivered them, next time I will surely make a marble game out of them
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  #129  
Old Sat 10 March 2012, 16:41
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
Some nice Vcarving, for me this is the easiest technique of creating artwork. For these I used parts of vector drawings and some of mine elements. As always anyone wanting the artwork, just needs to ask










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  #130  
Old Sun 11 March 2012, 01:15
Alan_c
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Cape Town (Western Cape)
South Africa
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Nice ideas and nice work Danilo, have you still got my e-mail address?
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  #131  
Old Sun 11 March 2012, 01:43
Kobus_Joubert
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Riversdale Western Cape
South Africa
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Very nice and I think you should have my e-mail handy...thank's
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  #132  
Old Sun 11 March 2012, 09:08
hennie
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Roodepoort JHB
South Africa
I will get it from you oak`s
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  #133  
Old Sun 11 March 2012, 11:32
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
Hennie, you mean okes, not oaks. It is a shortened version of blokes.
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  #134  
Old Sun 11 March 2012, 12:34
jehayes
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Whidbey Island, Washington
United States of America
Danilo:

Thanks for the photos. Great work. Inspiring.

Joe
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  #135  
Old Mon 12 March 2012, 05:50
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
For all of you interested in files here they are. Aspire 3.5 files and EPS vector export

www.cnc.rs/mechmate/carving.zip
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  #136  
Old Mon 12 March 2012, 06:27
Axel1966
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Paris
France
Very nice carving, I love the leafs
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  #137  
Old Wed 28 March 2012, 17:27
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
1200mm central logo , 10mm birch plywood , done with 2mm endmill, some parts of letters are not on the picture. It will be backlit trough 3mm opal acrylic oval 2800 x 2000mm
with a back structure like rays. Will post pictures of it when finished

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  #138  
Old Wed 28 March 2012, 17:36
Axel1966
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Paris
France
Looks very nice.
Always with Aspire, I guess ?
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  #139  
Old Thu 29 March 2012, 01:20
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
Yes I use Aspire, but as I mainly do 2D any cam would be sufficient, just got used to aspire. Must say that sometimes with large number of vectors, curves and points its slow on trimming even with a newer computer.
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  #140  
Old Thu 29 March 2012, 01:49
Axel1966
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Paris
France
Do you use a vector graphic program to create prior to import files into Aspire ?
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  #141  
Old Thu 29 March 2012, 02:07
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Autocad always, for any geometry and designing construction parts from simple "how should it look" drawings. Then import in aspire and join, trim as necessary.
This logo was imported from AI, Adobe Illustrator, very nice feature in aspire to import AI directly.

Also I always use the aspire feature, curve fit vectors, to convert all the curves to Bezier curves

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  #142  
Old Thu 29 March 2012, 02:43
Axel1966
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Paris
France
I only get an evaluation version of Aspire two days ago, I don't know all the features.
Aspire looks like a very complete program, production ready with it's excellent "automatic profiles" feature.
Does Asprire replaces(include) all the other Vectric programs (Cut2D/3D, VCarve, PhotoVcarve...)?
I agree importation features on Asprire are great, I'll be able to import 3DSMax or Rhino files too.
I use those programs Since a long time, as Illustrator as well. Great because I'm not as good with Autocad...

Last edited by Axel1966; Thu 29 March 2012 at 02:44.. Reason: small brain
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  #143  
Old Thu 29 March 2012, 06:38
danilom
Just call me: Danilo #64
 
Novi Sad
Serbia
Look here for comparison, only Cut3D and PhotoVcarve have features that Aspire has not.
http://www.vectric.com/WebSite/Vectr...omparision.htm
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  #144  
Old Thu 29 March 2012, 07:01
Surfcnc
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Queensland
Australia
Hi Danilo

Your carving backlit with rays coming out of it, we have to see that !

Ross
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  #145  
Old Sat 31 March 2012, 13:05
Robert M
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Lac-Brome, Qc
Canada
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Hy Danilo !
May I ask you, when time permit, share some of cut settings for this nice work with your 2mm cutter ?
I have not yet tried nor practice some cut with such detail work nor with a 2mm cutter !
I’m quite curious to see what consideration are made !!??
Thks in advance.
Amicalement, Robert
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  #146  
Old Sat 31 March 2012, 14:02
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
2mm DOC and about 1.8m/min feedrate , nothing special. I had some pretty durable cutters, they refused to break even when some pieces that fell apart hit them.
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  #147  
Old Tue 19 June 2012, 12:42
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
doing some kitchen fronts, and doors carving... I had to make some sort of a hold down.
This removable table worked like a charm.











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  #148  
Old Wed 20 June 2012, 07:58
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
I had a couple of issues, Y axis constantly was 1-2mm off after the gcode ends. So I repeatedly zeroed it again, checked for mechanical slop but there was none. Only to find what I have found in the past.
While testing some other motors couple of weeks ago, I set Mach3 kernel speed to 45khz. Last time I forgot to put it back to 25khz I had the same situation with X.
So smack on the head and revert to 25khz, problem solved!
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  #149  
Old Wed 20 June 2012, 13:54
smreish
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Orlando, Florida
United States of America
Danilo. I too rarely set a machine in the 45K kernel speed.
For whatever reason - bugs pop up at that speed on some motherboards.
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  #150  
Old Mon 09 July 2012, 04:00
danilom
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Novi Sad
Serbia
Some more Vcarving, it amazes me how fast it is produced and how nice is the effect.



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