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

One way that you could do this is to use VectorCAD (the $15.00 version for
the CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO list) and have it draw an offset around the part that
just happens to be the radius of the cutter. You can convert this to G-Code
and your compensation is there. Of course, if you change cutter diameter,
you'll have to re-generate the G-Code.

-- Carol & Jerry Jankura
Strongsville, Ohio
So many toys, So little time....

| -----Original Message-----
| From: tom.kay@... [mailto:tom.kay@...]
| Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 9:02 AM
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| Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Suggestions for cnc software, with cutter
| radius compensation?
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| Hello
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Any suggestions? Thanks, Tom.
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