#linuxcnc Logs
Mar 09 2022
#linuxcnc Calendar
12:26 AM CaptHindsight[m]: XXCoder: what is your price for gas today?
12:34 AM XXCoder: dunno, havent refueled since before invasion
12:34 AM XXCoder: according to mr. google its 4.6 dollar a gal
12:34 AM XXCoder: I refueled at 3.5
12:34 AM CaptHindsight[m]: $7/gal in LA
12:34 AM CaptHindsight[m]: Chicago was ~$5.50
12:50 AM XXCoder: HAH! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJv96xmz-sc
12:51 AM CaptHindsight[m]: I saw that a few days ago haha
12:51 AM CaptHindsight[m]: couldn't find the YT link, thanks
12:51 AM XXCoder: welcome
01:53 AM Deejay: moin
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04:37 AM JT-Cave: morning
04:47 AM Tom_L: morning
06:19 AM JT-Cave: onsrud 60° single flute
07:38 AM unterhausen: I don't know why I like watching the youtube videos of the guy that keeps screwing up his 3d printer
07:58 AM Loetmichel: Note to self: you are getting old when you have fond memories of a Movie that you watched in your early 30s and the coworker says "Man, i wasnt even on this world when Matrix came out!" :)
11:08 AM incal: o/ what is the common text to gcode tool? I found this but don't run, don't even have the binary, I have python3 but I take it it won't work just changing into that ...
11:08 AM incal: OK, so it doesn't ... maybe I can fix the errors
11:09 AM roycroft: i'd like a good text to gcode tool
11:10 AM roycroft: echo "computer - carve me a baby yoda!" | txt2gcode >yoda.gcode
11:10 AM roycroft: that would be cool
11:10 AM XXCoder: :)
11:10 AM incal: there isn't one?
11:11 AM XXCoder: if you often engrave specific size font stuff, its great idea
11:11 AM incal: this also don't work with Python3, http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Simple_LinuxCNC_G-Code_Generators#Multi_line_Text_Engraving_Software
11:11 AM roycroft: try f-engrave
11:13 AM incal: this? can't find a Llinux download? https://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave.html
11:14 AM incal: "source" maybe implies Linux :)
11:15 AM incal: yep
11:17 AM incal: works! but GUI tool :(
11:17 AM XXCoder: I wonder how old it is now
11:17 AM XXCoder: 1.7.5
11:17 AM CaptHindsight[m]: it's Python
11:17 AM roycroft: i'm not experienced with it
11:17 AM roycroft: i just know that most folks who do text engraving with linuxcnc seem to use f-engrave
11:17 AM XXCoder: latest video by them is 2 months old
11:18 AM CaptHindsight[m]: use QTPy and make your own new GUI
11:18 AM roycroft: jt used it like yesterday
11:18 AM roycroft: actually i think he used it over the weekend, but posted the pictures yesterday
11:19 AM XXCoder: wow 6 years old for last f-carve related video
11:33 AM incal: I think this works great!
11:34 AM incal: just how high in mm is LaTeX \fontsize{80}{96} LOL
11:37 AM incal: "[n]umber of points multiply by 0.352778" <https://www.conversionunites.com/converter-points-to-mm>
11:37 AM XXCoder: 72n point font size is one inch
11:37 AM XXCoder: convery it as you will
11:37 AM incal: (ceiling (* 80 0.352778)) ; 29
11:43 AM incal: can anyone read this? https://dataswamp.org/~incal/cnc/wood.ngc
11:43 AM pjm: that URL works
11:44 AM incal: cool, indeed now it works here as well :)
11:44 AM XXCoder: looks like standard gcode file. yeah looks fine
11:44 AM incal: off to the damn workshop then and try it, amazing it it would work this easy!
11:45 AM XXCoder: f-carve?
11:45 AM incal: yeah
11:45 AM XXCoder: nice
11:45 AM incal: get back to you ...
11:45 AM incal: but if it works we should pick that tool apart and make a CLI tool out of it
11:51 AM roycroft: you can use openscad for that
12:39 PM unterhausen: lots of python tools got broken because computer scientists can't stop themselves from screwing with languages
12:43 PM roycroft: and lots of python tools start out broken and never get better :)
01:46 PM JT-Shop: incal, you can load the G code file from f-engrave in an Axis sim and run it if you have multiple font sizes to see the outline
01:47 PM JT-Shop: incal, https://gnipsel.com/images/wood-working/bowls/bowls-11.jpg
01:53 PM incal: OK, thanks!
01:55 PM Tom_L: one more day of snow coming for the year hopefully that will be it then
01:59 PM incal: JT-Shop, pretty!
02:05 PM JT-Shop: thanks
02:10 PM roycroft: it's going to freeze here tonight
02:10 PM roycroft: as far as snow goes, it's unlikely that we'll get any more this year (we only had a light dusting once so far)
02:11 PM roycroft: usually it doesn't snow after this time of year, but about 10 years ago we had a huge snowstorm in late april that took lots of trees and power lines down
02:20 PM XXCoder: here, cold night but no snow
04:01 PM unterhausen: 4 inches on saturday, that's no fun. We had incredibly wet snow today, about 2"
04:44 PM JT-Shop: just finished up a 24" x 24" x 1" table top from red oak strips of various widths (scraps) but it looks real nice... do you put T&T varnish oil on both top and bottom? it's for the machine shop...
04:49 PM JT-Shop: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0764341650
04:49 PM JT-Shop: just ordered that
04:49 PM XXCoder: nice
04:57 PM Tom_L: looks like fun
04:58 PM JT-Shop: just pondering how to make a circular pattern on the bottom
04:59 PM Tom_L: used your jig yet?
04:59 PM JT-Shop: yes, several times
04:59 PM JT-Shop: works perfect
05:01 PM Tom_L: what grows around there besides oak and walnut?
05:03 PM JT-Shop: pine, persimmon, juniper, cypress, hmm
05:03 PM roycroft: probably poplar and cottonwood - they seem to grow everywhere
05:03 PM JT-Shop: a bunch lol
05:03 PM Tom_L: yeah
05:04 PM JT-Shop: down by the creek is some softwood trees I forget the name
05:04 PM JT-Shop: roycroft, just finished up a 24" x 24" x 1" table top from red oak strips of various widths (scraps) but it looks real nice... do you put T&T varnish oil on both top and bottom? it's for the machine shop...
05:10 PM Tom_L: 35% chance of snow in the AM
05:10 PM roycroft: yes, do both sides
05:10 PM roycroft: it will help keep it from warping
05:10 PM JT-Shop: ok thanks
05:10 PM Tom_L: 70% by 10pm
05:10 PM roycroft: the same when veneering
05:10 PM roycroft: use cheap veneer on the hidden side, but alway veneer both sides
05:11 PM JT-Shop: ok
05:12 PM JT-Shop: Friday Chance Rain/Snow then Rain/Snow Likely
05:13 PM JT-Shop: I used William Ng's method for trimming the band strip
05:19 PM JT-Shop: https://www.youtube.com/c/JimRodgersWoodturner
06:49 PM CaptHindsight[m]: I know I had a sharpening stone 10-15 years ago, does anyone know where I left it?
06:50 PM _unreal_: Quick he's looking cover it up
07:33 PM * t4nk_freenode slaps _unreal_ with a large c-beam
07:33 PM t4nk_freenode: *sigh*
07:33 PM t4nk_freenode: still haven't ordered :(
07:33 PM t4nk_freenode: I want to though :|
07:34 PM t4nk_freenode: somehow I'd like 3x 1m
07:34 PM t4nk_freenode: but I'm not sure they will be good for 2xy and 1xX
07:35 PM t4nk_freenode: I need a good build plan I think
07:36 PM t4nk_freenode: but I don't want to buy all them plates, I find that way too expensive
07:36 PM t4nk_freenode: so I'd like to mill them myself from alu
07:37 PM t4nk_freenode: first make them from mdf with the other machine
07:37 PM t4nk_freenode: then from alu with the new machine
07:38 PM t4nk_freenode: HELLO!?!??!?!?! ;0
07:42 PM t4nk_freenode: Ignoring me, ey?
07:42 PM t4nk_freenode: I'll remember that, buddy!
09:22 PM skunkworks: looks like the lathe should have enough cutting force with that stepper and acme leadscrew
09:33 PM Tom_L: make any test cuts?
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