In the past year, besides working on the truck and my rose gardens, I’ve been writing a program, cncDraw, to create G-code to drive my CNC milling machine.
I call it a 2 1/2 D machine. The working dimensions are approximately 12″x15″x2.5″ (X,Y,Z). It’s considered to be an engraving machine and I’ve made some nice name tags for my roses.
Screen shot of my program.
The first thing I designed was an outhouse, because the 4 walls can be cut in one piece. The black lines are V-grooves. Red lines are cut through and the green areas are slots cut with an end mill.
Currently I’m working on a model of my house. Originally I used a scale factor of 24:1, but that turned out to be huge. The trains are nominally 22.5:1. The final version uses a scale of 32:1. This may be a bit small, but it will fit inside some of the loops in my garden railroad.
The structures I had were built from plastic kits. When I took them in for a hurricane, they mostly fell apart. Florida sun and humidity are not kind to the glues that come with kits.