“Het schoonste land op de wereldbol.”
Our language in my region is Flemisch,
In Belgium we have tree official languages Flemisch, Frensch, and German.
A good Belgian one speaks them and i also speaks Englisch.
I was a machinebuilder internal automatisation for over 40yaers in a “great” comany,
wh o is making weaving machines for carpet and velvet fot over 100 yaers.
For almost 3yaers now i use my cad-scales in to Fusion360 for direct modeling,
surface modeking and 3d fdm printing.
Exploring now cam for turning on “teach inn” and cnc turning.
From time to time we helps to bigger blacksmith events all over Europe.
Working the last year almost on the erection of a new museum workschop.
With a 1900 horse schoeing part, a 1900 blacksmithing part
and a 1950 blacksmithing part.
A verry ritch combination of old and new, classic and modern, imperial and metric…
Welcome @MarnixCarlier
Sounds like you have great experience.
I did workt fot over 40 yaers on a lot of NC and CNC machine as a technician but verry rare as an operator. Did geometry, revision, mechanical reparation and transformations on al kind of machines.
I did do always manual opperations for erection, start up and reparations but never real for production. Takisawa, Kolb, AND-Gildemeister, Huller-Hille, Maho, Schies-kopp, Olivetti, Mandelli, Forest-Liné, Cincinati, Stama, Burkhard-Weber, some of the NC names i remeber, now there are a lot of Mazak machines with great automatisations with robots of all kind ath the factory, modern times…
Hello,
It did take me some time to really make my first exercise on the Rocket.
I did manage verry wel to translate the imperial Rocket to metric dimentions without
big issues to overcome, so my 3d files are reddy, maked in my personal Fusion360.
We did manage to instal ECam to programm the parts:
The ECam for the lathe:
Our CNC lathe SIMT8 with Eding cnc controler:
The 3Dmodel of the complete CNC lathe:
The toolsetter probing arm to be installed to complete our simulator:
and the actual situation of our sumilator:
@MarnixCarlier WOW that is a nice machine.
Hello Rumpilstiltskin,
The late is a verry nice strong machine, made in the’60tys in France,
for roughting all kind off axes to diameter 200mm and 600mm long.
With hadened and rectified prismatic guides.
There was a spindle engine of 11Kw
now we have instaled 5.5 Kw what must be quite enough
with modern CNC cutting technology.
The Numerical contol we use is from Eding CNC and runningon a industrial PS.
Feel free to have a loock on the job done so for. (copy and paste in google one of the the licks:)
Now we are working on a simulator, and when things begin to worck, all te pieces and parts gows back on the real CNCteach inn machine “Les Innovations Mecaniques” type T8
Best greating Mechanix (Deutsche sprache geth auch)
Hello peuple fom TITANS of CNC,
Last weekend i did find the Rocket tool kit in milimeter dimentions,
Here in Europe we work a lot with the metric system,
so that works more easy for me and my adged brains…
We also finaly want to start up the progamming
of the rocket, wich is a great learning project i feel!!!
So the next question was comming,
What to do, to construct a METRIC dementioned ROCKET?
Did alreddy some one make a metric rocket?
Are there metical models alreddy?
Can is switch the rocket models from imperial to DIN millimeters in Fusion360,
and then redraw the rocket files in solid millimeter sizes?
Than i did make the desision te redraw the whole rocket in the nearest solid mm dimention.
So that milimeter rocket geth the final length of 234mm (who is just under 10 inch)
Ath the Budalab, my friend Harry did advanced verry well to make the teach inn menus
forr the late, so that means that you can call up a menu, where you enter the dimentions
and afterwaards your G-code is generated by the program.
So for my selve i have to go on with the system to measure and enter the dimentions
for the toolings, now i have the mm listing of the tools to install to make the parts for the rocket!!!
Mechanix from Belgium
Here is a, other assembly vieuw of the millimeter dimentioned rocket:
And this are some drawings off the “Fusion360 drawed” and “millimeter dimentioned”
measure arm to be constructed soon:
On top of the messuring arm, there is a OMRON presision switch installed:
The arm is pneumatical moved up ans down by an SMC rotary actuator:
If using Metric values and availability of material and tooling, I would use 25mm stock, turn finish OD to 24mm, substitute the 3/8-16 thread to M8 x1.0 and substitute the 1/2-13 to M12 x 1.25. The good thing about the CAD packages you can design in either format (inch or metric) and then with one click you can change unit values.
So thanks stephen for your feed back.
I have to find out the mm to inch switch and inch to mm
Now i am loocking to have the wricht tools as in the mm toollist,
so that i can install them in our lathe simulator.
When we have a loock on an example:
we have a inch dimentioned part:
We go to the sketch of that part:
We see inch dimentions
We go to document settings
We change the document sttings to mm:
And there are the mm dimentions:
“zo simpel als pompewater” means: as simple as pump water…
When you know where the buttoms are.
Best gteatings, Mechanix Belgium
@MarnixCarlier.
I have your issue in reverse customer sends Parts in metric and I use in LOL I use .03937 as a multiplier by a millimeter to come up with the inch.
10mm= .03947× 10= .3937:"
I sometimes have issues with the right size tap drill for metrics. I only have number letter an inch fraction