On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:50 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2018 12:57:07 Chris Albertson wrote: > > > Gene, > > > > You should learn to use CAM software. > > I've made several passes at learning one pkg or another, but after half > an hour without making any real progress, I'm back to measuring and > defining points and writing gcode by hand. > 30 minutes is unrealistic. Takes about a week to learn to use something like that. But it's been 4 days now to make a simle "D" cut out. If yousave a few days on every parts the payback is quick. Plus you be able to make very complex, lofted parts with compound cuves. > > > As an exercise I tried this, > > took about 6 minutes. Four steps Draw trapezoid, filet the corners, > > select tool, generate g-code for tool path. The trapezoid is > > parametric so I can change the length by editing one number. > > I'm about halfway there, and should be able to switch it to a db9/15 size > by throwing a software switch. But I'm also up to around 310 LOC now. > With the CAM program unrolling all the loops, this code would be 100K+ > of build it from scratch to fix a typu in the cam drawings. > > I thought ncam might have some tools I could use, but nothing in its > menu's shows any interest in a problem like this. and it was playing > with my latency, making it noticeably worse, so its now commented out of > the .ini file on that machine. Lots less growling at me in the shell I > ran lcnc in. :) If it wasn't a sw stepper it might not notice it so bad. > Thats one of the reasons I'll make 2 of these interface boxes. > > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
