[Jewelry making - Article 00222] - Re: [Orchid] CAD/CAM Oversupply?

[Mark Bingham]

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Hi Les,

    I'm so glad you grasp the 'nother side *grin* - the input side of
    CAD/CAM - so often glossed over. 

    What I have done is to look at 3D laser scanners, generally faint at
    the pricing and the spot size (both too large)! Then, picking myself
    up from the floor, I looked at ball-probe scanning attachments for
    mills, again fainting at the huge probe dimensions (useless for fine
    structures and textures). 

    Last, realizing the scan process needs to be ROTARY as often as XYZ,
    I conceived very high resolution rotary drives that fit into existing
    Roland machines down the low-price end - MDX-15/20 and PIX-30. My
    rotary drives make them all into rotary scanners. In the case of
    MDX-15/20 the milling function is also well supported. The rotary
    pricing is over $1000 but you can leave these things running
    unattended, yet never have to edit the scan output for quality. In
    answer to your question, most of my clients can therefore justify
    in-house rotary scanning for input. For technical interest peek at my
    website www.fourth-axis.com and click on Model 15, Model 20 and Model
    30. Then it will all make sense. 

Mark
http://www.fourth-axis.com
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