King Midas mill conversion

[diy-john]

Small update:
- have been getting more familiar with G-code, LinuxCNC, QCAD, dxf2gcode.
-- Also have Heekscad / HeeksCNC + Blender installed (http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/cad-ca...hat-i-did.html).
--- However so far,I have not transferred anything useful to work-piece from Heekscad/Blender.

- This weekend I started to make X-axis parts.
-- use QCAD to make DXF.
-- use dxf2gcode to make G-code.
--- each task I do in several smaller tasks.
---- I could not get dxf2gcode make one long piece of G-code, with climb-milling.
---- So instead, I have chosen to create individual smaller G-code -scripts, that I run in series.
----- Let mill return to home between each G-code script.
-- Getting used to mounting a work-piece.
--- Working with coordinates
--- Zeroing coordinates. Touchoff. In short: mount a work-piece, and practice how one can get cuttings exactly where one wants them.

-- On Friday bought a new 4mm and 6mm carbide end-mill. Smallest I had before this, was a 10mm end-mill.

It is slow progress, however rewarding. Would just love to go back to garage and start cutting again. At this stage, the machine is crude but it does what it is told to do.