Kim, I did my entire CNC machine design in Sketchup, I even used a physics engine add on to animate everything so I could see it moving. Its SOO wasy to do,...
Hi Eric, Kim, Were do I get the export in .stl from Sketchup? Thanks guys, Jim C. ... Kim, I did my entire CNC machine design in Sketchup, I even used a...
Thank Eric. Jim C. Eric <ericschimel@...> wrote: Google SU2STL and you will find it. ... -- -Eric [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ...
Mike, WHY??? OK, I can see some times when the geometry might cut better at 45° to avoid stair stepping problems. But then I'd just rotate the model. Jeff ...
Hi Jeff, I am currently working on a long, narrow piece (45" long, 14" wide) and I am getting some stair stepping on the perpindicular surfaces unless I use an...
Mike, Stair stepping is part of the game, try rotating the model by at least 5 or 10 degrees. Might make all the difference for you, it has helped me in the...
You way also want to use the pencil finish to clean up the edges when the parallel pass is done. Also, the latest test release posted to the news section of...
Sorry to bring this back from the dead, but I have built a new, bigger machine and I am still having this problem, even with the beta release of Meshcam. I...
Hi Eric, Do you see this low rapid move in the tool path window? Do you have any safe Z settings on? This could be a rounding error or blending from one move...
I am using 3.039, and I don't think Meshcam is making "Bad" code. In that rapid where it goes from the center of the circle to the outside of the part, it...
Is there an easy way of saving or printing out the parameters used in generating a toolpath? I would like to refer back to what I entered when I created a...
Dennis, I think that it is on Roberts list per a request from Randy. Might be a while, Robert just spent a couple of days killing bugs caused by Randys last...
Hello, I am trying to machine patterns for sand casting. my problem is that parallel finish keeps undoing the perfect finish on walls created by waterline. For...
I have uploaded 2 pictures that show what I am talking about. The pictures show a tool path being created for a simple cube. It seams obvious to me ( a novice...
Daniel, Go to the News on MeshCam site and get build 6901. Using it I couldn't reproduce you problem. I got nice results with both parallel and waterline ...
Awesome, thx so much. I will try it right now. ... couldn't ... waterline ... had to ... problem is ... created ... degrees) ... i were ... a ... However ... ...
I updated but I still have the problem. I have uploaded two more pics. The last pic has sections circled and labeled A and B. The problem is the green lines...
Daniel, Are you setting WATERLINE Min Surface Angle to less than your real draft angle? Try 0.1 degree A really bad screen shot in photos under jeffD shows...
I see your screen shot... that is exactly what I am trying to accomplish. I tried setting the angle to .1 and .01. The tool paths were a single MC run. I'll...
Daniel, You might just have caught a bug. When I tried a 2 degree draft angle with 6901 I got the same failure as you, my previous screen shot had a 20 degree...
Yay, Im not crazy. lol ... angle ... had a 20 ... response ... paths ... few ... to ... your ... of ... extra ... MC ... more ... The ... I ... side ... of ......
Daniel, Do send a note through news to Robert. One part of testing beta stuff is to report possible bugs. He doesn't let many major ones out, most are minor...
Howdy, I'm playing around with a stl of a releif on a hemisphere sitting in the bottom of a well (bore). The well at it's deepest part is .375 inches. I have...
Bob, What is your step down on roughing passes ??? Jeff *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** ... - Demand Designs Analog/Digital Modelling & Goldsmithing ...
roughing pass...Roughing Pass?...Oh, now I get it ROUGHING PASS! New to this, didn't think I needed a stinking... Thanks Jeff, up until now everything I have...
Are there example Lua scripts lurking somewhere to automate the User Interface (File->Open, Geometry->Scale|Translate, CAM->Define Stock, and so on)? This...
David, There is a .mcs script in the mc sample files folder. I am very far from knowing anything about scripts, the Lua documentation might as well be written...
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