Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] NAMES Runoff

What about CNCpro? I bet it would kick butt in a contouring contest!

Fred Smith wrote:

> Those of us fortunate enough to attend NAMES this year had a very rare
> experience on Sunday afternoon. We were able to see the same program
> running on several controllers and machines, simultaneously. There were
> Sherline CNC mills with Flashcut, Ahha, and EMC all running the same program
> at the same TIME! It was a program that cuts a 3D arc, rotated at 20
> degrees to the normal, interpolated into 3D lines, and repeated enough times
> to get a very good impression of the continuous contouring capability in 3D.
> Besides the 3 Sherline flavors, Roland had a Grizzly Mill with his
> controller from Cardinal Engineering, and Ray also got the program running
> on the "Hexapod-gravity induced-milling contraption, run with EMC". All
> systems could run the program. Ahha cut each line with ramping and was a
> poor performer, Flashcut cut with some stepping, but was able to be smoothed
> out with adjustment to the feed rates, both the EMC and Roland's machines
> were very smooth and performed as well with the complex 3D moves, as with 2d
> flat planar cutting.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Fred Smith - IMService
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