Can anyone give me a walkthrough of how to convert an AutoCAD 2004 block (which functions as our corporate border for our drawings) to a format that can then be used in Solidworks 2006 SP0.0?
I have run several different variations of this question through Google and other search engines and...
Your location does make things a bit difficult...
Short of purchasing an actual CNC machine (used or otherwise), or doing the massive amount of research required to learn how to build it yourself, you are (for lack of a more professional term) "screwed". Besides, depending on how big the...
Depending on where you are located, I'd highly recommend the folks at REA Technologies. They've been a great help with the Thermwood CNC Router I've been working with (a side note, avoid Thermwood Routers like The Plague. They don't adhere to any industry standards in their hardware...
No, those are two different lines in the program, seperated by a linear move.
In theory, it should work, but I think the machine is balking at all the backtracking, or something...
Either that, or it just doesn't like circular interpolation in incremental mode. :(
Anyway, I'm currently...
Gah! It still isn't working!
:(
Also, I suspect that I may be approaching the coding of this the wrong way. I may have to just have it carve out the 1" spline path first and then backtrack and carve the 2" radius spline... It appears that having it backtrack at each section of the spline is...
To revert into AOL internet slang for a moment:
OMFGNFW!
My supervisor had the CNC folks over at Poli Hi Solidur (our raw stock supplier, for some odd reason) to see if they could generate a CNC program with the source drawing I'm using. The program they returned had Radii of "1.0625" and...
Heh, that's kind of the key. I've looked into things like ONECNC and such, from that link given in the thread here on the BOBCAD/CAM discussion somewhere else, and referred them to my immediate superior, but they won't spend the money to purchase that CAM system. Or, rather, the owner of the...
I should have rotated that part in the .dxf I sent you and had some ordinate dimensions on the starting point, that would've made things easier to figure out.
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X & Y Zero are part of the G53.x code--the x being the particular part offset for the given tool.
This machine has no tool library capability, so all tool offset G codes are essentially useless--I have to program along centerpoints and calculate the toolpath myself. Though there are two layers...
Will do, expect it sometime between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. EST.
That's when I'll be emailing it (in other words, as soon as I get back to work).
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. -- H.L. Mencken
Hmmm... it's possible for me to email it, I have it in a .dxf on my computer at work. I'll try to email it to you in the a.m. when I get there in the morning if you can give me an address. I'll likely have to send it via hotmail, though, since my employer doesn't have me set up on the corporate...
Hmm, something just occurred to me...
Nate, do you think if I disabled/removed the G75 on the arc lines in the C7015-1P.txt it would make a difference?
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. -- H.L. Mencken
No, because I've done radii of as small as .0625 on this machine before...
This is really becoming a bit of a mind-buster for me :(
It's not holding up production on other orders, though, I'm currently machining them. But, this is really irking me and I wish I could figure out what was going...
