ball in cube.wmv

A short video of my home-made cnc router cutting a ball inside a cube of beech wood.
The code was produced using 'Cambam' and the machine was controlled by Mach 3.

The router is made from welded steel box section for the base and gantry and anodised aluminium for the z axis. The spindle is

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Science & Technology

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• ball
• in
• cube
• diy
• cnc
• router
• mach3
• cambam

[hho95667]

Did you draw the ball/cube in CamBam or use some sort of imported CAD file? Nice work. HHO95667

[pavloh1964]

I download a mesh model of a hemispere and imported this into cambam. everything else was drawn in cambam.

[hho95667]

thanks, I did the same thing, imported top of a sphere, then pocketed the top of the block down to the top of the sphere then used waterline rough then fine to shape the ball. However, my rough waterline started half way down the ball and worked up and down from there. Takes too much of a bit doing that. May switch from rough water line to mulitple fine waterline passes. Is that how you did it? thanks HHO95667

[pavloh1964]

I used rough waterline but chose 'level first' instead of 'depth first' in the cut ordering option.

On the finish pass I chose 'depth first'

[1Jejunum]

Really cool. I'm a woodturner, and it is possible to turn this on a lathe as well. Thanks for the vid!

[Przedzik]

Any chance i can get g code:)

Please love this project.

[MrNeoFromMatrix]

can you give me the g-codes ?

[diegodeepblue9787]

when you finished one side you have remove the cube and place it in the same exact spot that it was before but with another side facing up right? How do you did this?

[hho95667]

OK, I got thru the first 5 sides. Now I need to figure out how to clamp the sphere and the cage to make the final side. I tried 2 different approaches, both seem to work. Did you figure out how to make the 6th side? Ain't this fun!!! HHO95667

[hho95667]

Thanks, I will give that a try. HHO95667