"John R. Carroll" wrote:
Pete C. wrote:
"John R. Carroll" wrote:
Pete C. wrote:
Does anyone who has 3D capable CAD/CAM have the ambition to generate
some G-code for me? What I need is two sets of code for a half egg
shape, a positive and a negative to use in a press. The egg would be
approximately 3.5" diameter by a suitable length perhaps ~4.5" or
so. The pos/neg die clearance should be .020". Post processor for
Mach3.
I'd be happy to help out Pete.
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John R. Carroll
Great, thanks. I'm trying to make some 3D egg cake molds for a
friend's bakery. It seems that some commercial molds are available
for very big eggs or for small eggs, but not mid sized ones. I'm
planning to laminate up some oak or similar to mill the dies out of,
add some guide pins and then press the pan halves out of aluminum
flashing material (~.015"). I've got 1/8", 1/4" and 3/4" ball end
mills on hand, along with the usual assortment of regular end mills
for roughing. I'll be running this on my little CNC'd X2 mill since I
haven't found an "Iggy" deal on a larger CNC mill to refit yet.
I'm farting around with a solid model of an egg right now.
Do you have a sketch?
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John R. Carroll
No sketch really, just a moderately large egg shape cut in half axially,
so that two pans pressed out with the die set can be clamped together to
bake a solid egg.