Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Suggestions for cnc software, with cutter radius compensation?

Hi Tom,

Get the Vector CAD-only demo, you can generate tool paths with the
appropriate tool offsets! The CAD/CAM version will then generate the
Gcode, or you can use the ACE converter program!

Alan KM6VV

tom.kay@... wrote:

>
> Hello
>
> I am looking for some fairly low-cost cnc software with tool radius
> compensation. Yeager automation (cncpro) does not offer this, and I
> was planning to download a copy of that program. I still might if I
> cannot find some hobby-type software with this feature. I suspect,
> from reading other comments, that cncpro is pretty good.
>
> I'd like to have the radius compensation, if possible, because I think
> it would be easier to plan out the tool path, and then use the G-42
> compensation to just cut inside the tool path, and I don't cut out too
> big of a pocket.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks, Tom.