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- Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:41 pm
- Forum: Product Reviews
- Topic: Front Panel Designer - Free
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13987
Re: Front Panel Designer - Free
Can it export to a .skp .dae or .stl ? No, however it does export STEP so can then use something else to convert STEP to those formats https://www.schaeffer-ag.de/en/front_panel_designer/the_idea/ The link to the german site (above) has a newer version than the US site, which included the STEP output
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:37 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Laser Current Meter
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10605
Re: Laser Current Meter
for your laser cutter, do you use a 3d printer with the extruder swapped out for a laser, or a dedicated unit? Is a dedicated 80w unit from China that has a working area of 700mm x 500mm, I did a post on commissioning it here http://forum.swmakers.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=193 . I did have a 3w d...
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Apologies for the Downtime
- Replies: 21
- Views: 46709
Re: Apologies for the Downtime
Yes same happening on safari. Chrome is the one giving me the error message
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 4:57 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Light Burn Camera alignment
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6195
Light Burn Camera alignment
Last week I was playing with the lightburn camera vision for work alignment. I was using some masking tape to protect from any burn marks, which peels off leaving a nice clean surface I was engraving some wooden coat hangers for my wifes business and the finished product BTW The cut was not done at ...
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:17 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Laser Current Meter
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10605
Re: Laser Current Meter
Its called Meter by tonne software m I had a license from way back when I did a job for someone and is not that expensive, there is a basic version that will allow single scale. Software is very clunky and not that user friendly but does a reasonable job. It has a number of neat features such as lin...
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Apologies for the Downtime
- Replies: 21
- Views: 46709
Re: Apologies for the Downtime
Is anyone else experiencing an error 500 when posting? Post sill appears to be posted though.
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Apologies for the Downtime
- Replies: 21
- Views: 46709
Re: Apologies for the Downtime
Whats everyones thoughts on making forums open to public as Read only in the interest of information sharing? they will still need to register to take part.
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Apologies for the Downtime
- Replies: 21
- Views: 46709
Re: Apologies for the Downtime
@bejay look at using Letsencrypt (https://letsencrypt.org) free certificates along with certbot (https://certbot.eff.org/) to automatically deploy and renew them, they call them ACME clients. Theres a number of clients for just about every OS/Http Server out there, including IIS. I believe they also do wildcards.
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 5:17 pm
- Forum: Product Reviews
- Topic: Front Panel Designer - Free
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13987
Re: Front Panel Designer - Free
Further to this... Printing allows you to print out a panel to be used as a template for cutting, along with centre holes for drilling, so next thing will be for me to use this to cut out a place on my laser cutters panel using this template for the amp meter. I checked the printed copy and all appe...
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 3:29 pm
- Forum: Product Reviews
- Topic: Front Panel Designer - Free
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13987
Front Panel Designer - Free
I re-stumbled across this free download from https://www.frontpanelexpress.com/downloads/front_panel_designer which is used to create cutout panels for projects. Suitible for PC, Mac and Linux. Best thing is its free!!!! ....however.... It's designed for their service which is getting your design pa...
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:33 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Laser Current Meter
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10605
Re: Laser Current Meter
to continue with this theme.... I had a day off yesterday and finally got around to adding a current meter to mine. At the moment no box, just hooked it in. I was contemplating a box design, however I think I have enough space on my front control panel and will mount it directly there. Here is the p...
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:15 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: SMD Component Display Board
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5273
Re: SMD DComponent Display Board
Nice one Paul, Did you use cut or scan mode for the cutouts? The tests I've done int he past for SMD stencils I found scan mode the best.
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Calibrating the RD Works controlled Chinese Laser
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10441
Re: Calibrating the RD Works controlled Chinese Laser
Thanks Paul,
I should do this for mine, I do it for my 3D printers but haven't for the laser cutter
I should do this for mine, I do it for my 3D printers but haven't for the laser cutter
- Sat Jul 28, 2018 12:28 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: SMD Soldering Test
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11137
Re: SMD Soldering Test
well done Paul !
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 1:08 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Laser cut Marble Machine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5196
Re: Laser cut Marble Machine
I tracked down some 10mm ball bearings locally so here it is in all its glory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8n18bJ0TCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8n18bJ0TCE
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:18 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Laser cut Marble Machine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5196
Laser cut Marble Machine
Have been playing around with the laser cutter this week and decided to build a marble machine from thingiverse m out of 3mm MDF from bunnings, so that kids can have some hands on when we have our displays It took a little bit of fiddling with the original plans as they were incorrectly sized, every...
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:09 am
- Forum: Product Reviews
- Topic: Lightburn Laser engraving Software
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8041
Lightburn Laser engraving Software
Over the last few weeks Ive been playing around with Lightburn, https://lightburnsoftware.com ), a 3rd party (commercial) software that works with the RUDIA controllers that come in most cheap chinese Laser cutters on eBay. along with the open source GRBL controllers. The costs for the Chinese contr...
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 9:34 am
- Forum: Product Reviews
- Topic: Extra Wide Low Adhesive Masking Tape
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8296
Re: Extra Wide Low Adhesive Masking Tape
Thanks for that will look at getting some myself
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 9:27 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Planter Boxes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23265
Re: Planter Boxes
Nice One Phil, will love to see the finished product!
- Tue May 29, 2018 2:03 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Learning KiCAD, PCB Production and Soldering
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11012
Re: Learning KiCAD, PCB Production and Soldering
My thoughts are 1) For training sessions I'd wait until v5 has been released (currently 5.0RC2 has just been released for ubuntu) - this is form the dev list I'm on, then I could do a refresher with new features etc. 2) My initial thought of when we spoke was to have a "PCB business card" ...