Re: EMC SurfCAM PostFiles?

Bert,
No, yours is the first response. After muddling around a bit,
I read where the EMC interpreter was similiar to the Fanul(?) so
that is the one I chose. After Surfcam generates the gcode,
I manually delete an odd line at the top, I think it is
O00 which seems to cause trouble for EMC. I also remove some
M codes for good measure. (I don't have the Surfcam in front
of me, if you want a more precise description of what I remove
let me know.) In general, the Gcode is pretty good.

What I like about surfcam is it will remove large pockets of
material. I don't think GCode2000 will do that (which I am also
looking at). GCode2000 seems to do only outlines.

Also, SurfCam will create a toolpath with cutter compensation
handled by SurfCam rather than EMC. EMC is very strict about
gouging when you use cutter compensation G41, G42. On the other
hand, since SurfCam is less strict, it must also be gouging in
some cases. I don't know if the tolerance is settable.

Art

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Bert Pirson" <hpirson@b...> wrote:
> Art,
>
> Did you ever get a response to your post. I have only briefly
looked at
> SurfCAM but was wondering the same thing.
>
> Bert
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "snuckleton" <snuckleton@y...>
> To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y...>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:34 PM
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC SurfCAM PostFiles?
>
>
> > I am trying SurfCAM2DFree and I have gotten to the
> > point where I can generate the GCode for the toolpath.
> > SurfCAM has profiles for some machines such as
> > Fanul, HAAS, FADAL, Mazatrol and some others, but not
> > EMC. These profiles customize the GCode output for the dialect
> > understood by the particular machine.
> >
> > -Has anyone customized a post profile for EMC?
> > -Is this even necessary? Is one of the provided profiles
> > close enough?
> >
> > BTW, the SurfCAMFree2D tutorial is pretty good.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Art