Are you referring to the transparency? I don’t know about fusion, but in Onshape I often change the transparency of the object I’m working on to allow that to happen - usually about 40% gives a nice clear view.
In these two examples the first is a two dimensional trace of the boat’s setout stations from a brochure, the second the actual model (yellow) overlaid on a deckplan to see how close I got.
Now for the Neat! part - the MiniGlobeRace starts on Sunday, the model is part of a project for a friend who is close to pressing the start button on a boat for the 2029 event!
I’m patiently waiting to buy an old Boxford lathe - it has a power feed but uses change gears to do screwcutting, but you don’t need to do that if you have an encoder and drive the leadscrew with a stepper motor controlled by a something like the box he’s using!
I want to buy a commercial CNC now (am I allowed to say that here?). I’ve gotten enough experience with the MPCNC / LR over the years where I want to see what spending $4k gets me.
Honestly I don’t see much difference in capabilities from the LR4 to those machines. The key to all of those is that they have someone there for technical support (Paid… we are great support here!).
Build a super rigid frame with plenty of heft and then put the controls and motors you want on it.
Ball screws for precision
big motors for power
Spindle for cutting capabilities
Look at Masso for control in a neat package.
The PrintNC seems to fit all these nicely and I bet it will hold up far longer than anything built with 8020…
fwiw, while wondering about what void(s) a MPCNC TNG might fill, ended up creating https://aaronse.github.io/mpcnc-tng/cnc-price-vs-area.html Doesn’t render well on small screen/phone. Zoom in with mouse wheel, pan and hover for feature details, click to open manufacturer/product page.
That’s an awesome visualization. I’ve always enoyed trying to make metrics for things that I’m comparing at work. It turns out that some things are surprisingly linear, like with electrolytic capacitors how the overall can size has a pretty strong relationship to cost, ripple current handling and capacity, which means you can relatively easily take a design and say ‘this needs $X and Y cm³ of capacitors’.
The /m² and /m³ metrics for the CNC machines would be interesting, but I suspect an even more fascinating one would be $/m³/h of material removal for a given material/accuracy. Hard to get that data in a realistic fashion, though.
Oh I missed the Onefinity drama too. They went around and replaced PwnCNC with their own spindle name on users posts. They started reverting it, but that doesn’t seem cool.
I don’t think I have a need for device level slicing, but they have a clearly defined user group in mind here and it looks OK to me. Yes, it’s a cloud based setup and no, it’s not compulsory.
Oh, that is brilliant. I need that for 6 and 8 idlers. I wonder how well it would work. Those numbers are just annoying enough that 100 bags gets real repetitive, but using the counting scale is not really worth it.
