Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] HPGL 3D compucutter,etc

Fred,

You generated these files from Vector CAD/CAM how?

Alan KM6VV

Fred Smith wrote:

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> Ballendo & others
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> I have been working on the some of the HPGL 3D extensions and trying to provide a fairly simple solution to the development of 3D HPGL code. I took an existing configuration in Vector and made a couple of changes to format the data into something like the 3A code that Ron mentioned in his post about Compucut.
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> 1)This first is a simple 4 inch square in the X-Y Plane
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> 3A4.000,0.000,-1.000
> 3A4.000,4.000,-1.000
> 3A0.000,4.000,-1.000
> 3A0.000,0.000,-1.000
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> 2) This is the same rectangle rotated 25 degrees about the Y axis
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> 3A0.000,0.000,-1.000
> 3A3.625,0.000,-2.690
> 3A3.625,4.000,-2.690
> 3A0.000,4.000,-1.000
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> 3) This is the same data as 2), but scaled for 4000 steps per inch( 1/4 of one thousandth resolution), and with decimals removed.
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> 3A0000,0000,-4000000
> 3A14500925,0000,-10761892
> 3A14500925,16000000,-10761892
> 3A0000,16000000,-4000000
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> >From what I have seen of the Roland data, it may be able to take the actual coordinates as in the first example, but the other 3D plotter drivers seem to require that the steps be scaled into the actual values required for the stepper counts.
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> It would seem that this could be used to directly drive controllers such as Galil and LPT indexer, and also as input to any of the programs that take 3D HPGL for input, compucutter, Others?
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> Best Regards, Fred Smith- IMService
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