voronoi_drill_cells_c

Comment

Comment by Site Dead on May 10, 2013 at 3:14pm

think is was $500.00 took like 4 weeks.

CNC impression nice idea. Its hard to convey a 3D surface in a pic... its like you need to touch it.

Comment by machinehistories on May 9, 2013 at 8:11pm

a 4' ball end mill that sounds quite interesting. we've used a 2" but that's as large as we've gone. How much does a custom tool like that cost. We have also played around with using clay and sand on the CNC and using this same drilling method but with simply making impressions using large sphere attached to the machine instead of an real endmill. once you start to attach different things to the cnc it get's you thinking. The next thing I want to try is to machine a nice texture and then program a flyover camera path and just attach a video camera. I think you can tell a whole other story and use 3d contours and dwells and what not to get some dynamic camera moves. 

Comment by Site Dead on May 9, 2013 at 2:53pm

Had to find this... was done using the 4inch ballnose.

scale would be 1-1/2 x 24 x 82 inches

Comment by Site Dead on May 9, 2013 at 2:44pm

Damn!

that's huge run time :) hopefully you made bank on it! I completed several different test runs using the drilling approach just couldn't hit the price target but, I do love it high run times jobs I can watch it from home using web cams. 

thanks for the kind words, your work is spot on as well. I have something like 60 HDF panels.

I have a 4 inch diameter ball-nose bit (custom made) it cuts like a champ.

I found that bigger radius yield better results. mass in motion:)

I'll let you know what I come up with   

Comment by machinehistories on May 9, 2013 at 1:22pm

I have run 1 5'x8' test with over a million points and it took about 50 hours, I would say it has more to do with the number of points than the scale. 20k points might be 2-4 hours. I really liked some of those HDF panels you ran. If you use this approach please let me see what you make. 

Comment by Site Dead on May 9, 2013 at 12:40pm

Thanks,

so if may ask, the scale of your material and the finish run time.

I review your GH profile seems we done some similar work. 

Comment by machinehistories on May 9, 2013 at 11:28am

that's correct - the tool is a 1" diameter ball endmill

Comment by Site Dead on May 9, 2013 at 11:05am

So, its an actual drilling sequence? material is like 12mm thick?