hi group, i just had the chance to testdrive a brand new 3-axis router (isel euromod 65). the company was friendly enough to send me a 3d-model of the maschine.
what i am trying to do in GH: 1.) read in nc-code files 2.) route the x,y,z-coordinates to their destination, thereby ignoring everything else in the file. --------------------------------------------- where i could use some help: 1.) copy and paste to a panel works, of course. i took a brief look into the "reading from excel" definition kindly provided by splash. i am unfamiliar with vb.net. just changing to application to grab from (replace "excel" with "editor") did not do the job. maybe someone can give me a little hint here. 2.) (more important) the NC-code is basicly only a little bit more than x,y,z-coordinates of where the tool should move to. this little bit is stuff like the header, indices, feed rates, speeds, tool changes, ... is there a way to route the x,y,z-values to different pipelines? probably using vb.net. i don't see a way doing this with the list tools. any help would be greatly appreciated. Sample NC-code, containing x,y,z-values plus feed rates (e.g. F3000): X-13.00 Y0.00 Z8.00 F3000 Z1.20 F1000 X-7.00 F1000 X-6.28 Y0.04 F1500 X-5.56 Y0.17 X-4.87 Y0.39 X-4.21 Y0.69 X-3.59 Y1.06 the definition so far: http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/3Axis-Simulation_01.jpg?gda=TZNu0kkAAAC19Ve3i4OoV9kZmG4Q4msckXtf4JaoBrGr59r_nCeI-jl2TeoNG5w2G2ZaxG6KT0KZHEkGpWbbOiTn0s6s4NtuhAioEG5q2hncZWbpWmJ7IQ&hl=en BTW: it is hell of a fun to drive the maschine with grasshopper and RhinoCAM. you can just have a new variation of your definition being maschined in seconds ;-) http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/3Axis-GH.jpg?gda=g2HxMD4AAAC19Ve3i4OoV9kZmG4Q4msc_-SJb2bHftV_Zg4hSCo-jSi98hDpTs6_Mpsk-oG9Y0jjsKXVs-X7bdXZc5buSfmx&hl=en ps: this a link to an older thread where i did a 5-axis animation: http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/browse_thread/thread/425942cb99facc2b/e10b5ea488a3254d?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=5axis#e10b5ea488a3254d thanks in advance, frank
