A hardware kit of all the non-wood parts, including the electronics, is also available at. (Sorry Carvewright uses a proprietary file format no files are available for other CNC machines).

Here is a video on the design and construction of the clock: Synchronicityįiles are available to machine the wood parts of this clock on a Carvewright CNC. My circuit is powered by 4 D cells, which will operate the clock for up to three months.

I wanted my clock to be accurate, so I use a microcontroller in my electromagnetic pendulum drive so that the clock keeps perfect time. Wood expands and contracts with changes in temperature and humidity. Often times wood clocks of this type are not very accurate. This triggers electronics to put a pulse of current into the coil (or a second coil) and repel the magnet, giving the pendulum a push and powering the clock. As the magnet passes the coil, it induces a current in the coil. The pendulum contains a rare earth magnet which passes by a coil or two. Some designers use an electromagnetic pendulum to drive their clocks. I wanted to build a wood gear clock that did not require that frequent winding. These clocks need to be wound periodically, as often as every day. Many wood gear clocks are driven by weights. Sure wish we could import CorelDraw files into the CarveWright designer software.Synchronicity is a unique exposed wood gear pendulum wall clock, with a combination of old and new tech. If I can't do it on my CarveWright I'll have to work something out with my laser. Oh and I need to get this job done for a customer by Friday. Is there anything out there that deals with the basics like this?Ĭould you please point this computer illiterate individual in the right direction? Or I thought it would be until I tried to do so on the designer software. 5' notch from one corner and then round all of the corners. These cleats are nothing more than 2' long by 1.5' high rectangles. I can do it in CorelDraw but can't seem to be able to do it in the CarveWright designer software. My project is to cut out cleats for a display stand. The projects using patterns, etc are great and very informative but either I'm too dumb or am just not looking in the right places. It always seems that one has to dig and dig and dig in all the manuals, forums and tutorials to find the simplest of issues. But nothing that I've been able to find easily anywhere gives you a step by step guide to how to do this. In other words, how do I use the drawing tools to draw a box with rounded corners. I've pretty much exhausted each of these videos, along with all of the CarveWright tutorials etc, trying to find a video that deals with just actual drawing 'something' from scratch using the software.

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