something like this

7/22/2008 5:34:38 PM

do you want one up your ass, want to sell one, want to buy one?

stating the point of your thread generally makes it work a little better, imo anyways

7/22/2008 6:33:38 PM

i want to buy the one thats been up his ass please!

7/22/2008 6:58:25 PM

i dont know if there's an articulating arm one, but theres a bed scanner in the CoD media lab. There may be an arm one in the animation studio. If not, I'd bet damn near anything that the Industrial Engineering department has one.

Now you just have to find someone to let you in to use it

7/22/2008 7:29:15 PM

i used one of those in IE to scan in some teeth.

7/22/2008 8:45:56 PM

the crime 360 one is the shit.

7/22/2008 8:46:55 PM

what are you trying to do, some 3d modeling on something? are you trying to reproduce it, modify it, or just get a scan, or what? TED has some newer equipment now too, but i don't know what exactly. hit up MaximaDrvr, he told me a couple months ago that he was using/learning it.

7/22/2008 9:09:17 PM

faro arm? used one to do quality checks on axles at arvin meritor a few summers ago. that was super simple but the possibilities are huge.

what u trying to do

7/22/2008 10:44:05 PM

i pretty much wanna scan a hand (mine) and have it on the comp.. and want to be able to add components inside the hand to spread the hand out.. eventually make the hand out of poly

7/22/2008 11:05:46 PM

just sit on it for a while and it will go numb. no reason to make a whole new hand

7/23/2008 7:29:30 AM

imagine the possibilities, gone are the days of peter north and ron jeremy sittin around with their dick in plaster to make dildo molds

7/23/2008 7:40:50 AM

anyone around here have a CNC machine. on the cheap. for a demo?

9/2/2008 3:57:09 PM

plz 2 NO b

9/3/2008 12:14:21 AM

^^ Yes but the file would be too fucking huge to do on most machines.

9/3/2008 12:34:20 AM

most cnc machines can do licence plate size things. i dont see a hand being that much harder. but then again i havent used one.

9/3/2008 12:44:58 AM

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[Edited on September 3, 2008 at 1:07 AM. Reason : .]

9/3/2008 1:05:24 AM

Add to that the fact you are a complete fucking idot. You wouldnt know the difference between a CNC machine or a pair of balls on your chin.

9/3/2008 1:07:27 AM

why the edit to double post and the smart ass remark. it was a serious inquiry?

can you post up some pictures of "most" cnc machines?

9/3/2008 1:48:14 AM

^ since all you will ever see for the rest of your life is dirty oil and filters,



[Edited on September 3, 2008 at 8:07 AM. Reason : you don't know shit about wiping your own ass son]

9/3/2008 8:07:07 AM

can you tell me or gk2000000000 what dimensions that will cut or did you just google cnc machine?

9/3/2008 11:43:30 AM

you can get damn near anything built, its a matter of what most people have

i have seen one that can handle 80'x30'x12' at a shipyard, that doesn't mean they have one that size in the lab at ncsu

9/3/2008 2:29:27 PM

Physical size is not the issue. ( I ran a 68"x32"x30" for 10 years) How complex the cuts must be along with the tolerance is what takes up hard drive space. Most CNC machines that do alot of 3D work will have an external CPU just to store programs and "drip" feed them to the machine. Any cut that requires 2 axis moving at the same time will create a huge amount of data for the machine to process.

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9/4/2008 1:27:20 PM

we have a winner folks^

The bridgeport in the CoD shop I *believe* now supports USB drives, with file support up to like 8gb. I haven't messed with it since it was a floppy drive only, but i seem to remember that right before I rolled out of grad school

9/4/2008 1:31:44 PM

this is an .STL file that is just under 3MB

9/4/2008 1:43:08 PM

I assume that is the part file not the machining file? X10-15 if you want alot of detail in it.

9/4/2008 2:03:37 PM

Yeah you need to put the STL file into a CAM application to create the toolpaths.

Which will make that 3mb file go to a 700mb file in a heartbeat, and potentially MUCH larger if you want a smooth surface finish

9/4/2008 3:54:39 PM

yeah, the STL file is just the 3D data, you need another program to generate paths based on that data

noen has it covered though, but i've played with a cnc machine a few times back in school so i thought i'd chime in

9/4/2008 4:11:06 PM