have the original longmill 30 x 30 and looking for cheap rotary to make chess men, Does the SainSmart Genmitsu rotary work fine for this application without any modifications, I have vision problems and need simple. or any other suggestions.
Sincerely Thanks
Gerald
@Scoutergerry The only rotary that I saw using āSainsmart Genmitsu rotaryā as the search term was a roller unit for use with lasers. It will not work with a router. You need a rotary setup that grips the material.
edit: My apologies to @_Michael. I didnāt see that @Scoutergerry 's question was addressed to you. Iāll leave my reply here, but please feel free to jump in .
Are you talking about this one? I had not seen that before today. I donāt know if it can be made to work with a LongMill and gSender easily.
@_Michael Good catch, Michael. I didnāt see that one. Sorry about that @Scoutergerry
Now Scoutergerry1 had mix up on password
MI
@Scoutergerry Iām not sure what this means, Gerry.
@gwilki Reading this thread again and I remember one of Gerryās posts was from Scoutergerry1. Iām guessing he made it because of a lost password.
@Scoutergerry Iām not sure if you are still considering the sainsmart, itās been awhile now, but Iāve bean thinking about if that rotary would work and Iām thinking that the wiring of the motor shouldnāt be a problem. The way I used my roller was to disconnect both Y motors and run one of them to the rollers. The thing is that a roller doesnāt rely on angles of rotation, at least not in the G-code. Since the roller is in contact with the outside of the cylinder the distance moved on the outside of the cylinder is the same as the distance moved on the roller. So Y stays Y it just needs to have it scaled right, steps per mm in the firmware. I was able to use a regular job in Vectric not a rotary job.
I havenāt used a rotary device with my LongMill and havenāt looked at how gSender does it. I know you would have to do a rotary job in VCarve and Iām not sure how that works. Iām guessing that it works by angles and computes the angles based on the distance from the center of the rotary to where the bit is? Are there angles in the G-code? And the axis is A so does gSender map A to Y if hooked up like I did the roller or do you do it in the Post Processor in Vectric? These are the type of things Iām not sure about because I havenāt done it.
I think you need help from somebody that knows the rotary pipeline better than I do in order to make your decision if you havenāt already made it. Iām just not sure if the Vortex does anything special to make it all work.
1 Like