Re: [rp-ml] algorithm&implementation for STL slicing-SplineScan

From: Markus Hitter <mah_at_jump-ing.de>
Date: Fri Aug 25 2006 - 23:10:33 EEST

Am 25.08.2006 um 19:51 schrieb Charles Overy:

> I keep wondering why someone does not adapt a project like this to
> make a non contact scanning head for CNC machines. Off the cuff it
> would seem that you could create a hardware head that would sit in
> a collet holder and software that would output generic G-code to
> scan an arbitrary sized area.

A G-Code program to scan an area is trivial; it's the input (camera
picture analysis) software which needs thinking.

> Is it more difficult to patch meshes where the scanner is moving
> rather than the part?

No, it's identical.

Did you consider how the bearings and actuators of your CNC machine
feel if you let the table run full left - full right half a million
times?

Markus

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Received on Fri Aug 25 22:12:16 2006

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