Requests for help: Gcode cam follower/ tangential knife control.

[Russ Gries]

Hello,

Just about everything is documented on this playlist. :

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsiIKXpZfLKI-UXGFdXYS2groWniI-Eh5

If you want to know why i built it. Its to build this:

https://youtu.be/ivPsGxCXyPA

And test some theories...

~Russ

[jot4p]

@russ-gries

Yes, I follow you on YouTube

so, in this video you use Fusion 360, after that you use Simplify3D correct ? But you create a script to adjust the xyz to xyzU correct (U/A the angle of extruder 1), do you have some documentation ? or a start point for me (forum/ paper etc.. ?) I need to do the same for a concrete 3D printer.

I know that it is possible to do it automatically with Mach3 but I would like to try to do it myself.

At this moment I use Autodesk Inventor + PrinterRun (www.pronterface.com/) , it's possible to create scripts / macros with python to create the "final GCode".

My idea is change the rapms 1.4 (3d printer mainboard) by Duet3D and adjust this code to create the "tangential control" .

How do you adapt the Duet3D to create a U axis ? (the new "Extruder" axis ) ?

Thanks.