RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: creating toolpath..

John,

Glad to see you again promoting Dolphin, but let's be realistic on this.
Either Dolphin or Vector (and I am sure others) will do what he wishes
with about the same amount of effort. True in Vector you see the tool
paths that are created, but in Dolphin the toolpaths are not shown. This
is neither more or less advance, just different. Either way you set some
paramaters and either click the button to automatically make the
toolpaths so you can see what you will get or directly make the g-code
so you do not see what you get.

Agreed, Dolphin is sufficiently advanced to be competitive with some of
the other packages on the market. Like many software products, it is
better than some and not as good as others when doing any specific task.
The same can be said for all the CAD/CAM packages talked about on the
list.

Tim
[Denver, CO]
Sherline products at Deep Discount
Mach1 & DeskCNC with credit card ordering
www.KTMarketing.com/Sherline
Now selling Visual Mill 4.0

> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> >--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Jens Swales"
> ><jipeess2000@y...> wrote:
> >
> > hi group
> >
> >
> >
> > i need to find out a conveniant way to create toolpaths for
> hi- gloss
> > polishing of glass and marble/granite surfaces (common size is
> > 400x600mm).
>
> It's even easier in Dolphin.
> You don't even have to darw your toolpath, just the outer
> shape. Then if you select area clear you get many, many ways
> to machine this
> just by editing the Area clear box. You can select contour machining,
> uni-directional machining, bi- directional machining and by altering
> tool overlap and machining angle you have access to literally
> hundreds of ways without ever having to draw one toolpath.
> pic of the dialog box at:-
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stevenson.engineers/lsteve/files/area%
> 20shape.jpg
>
> Again this just goes to show how simple and advanced Dolphin really
> is.
>
> John S.
>
> the rule is to never grind/polish the same path twice or
> > you will get marks, streaks etc. that will be visible from
> > particular angles.
> > the work sequence is:
> >
> > 1st rough miller diamond/nickel grit 60, could be any pattern, it
> > just removes the stock
> >
> > 2nd pre-shaper diamond/nickel grit 120, zig-zag passes to remove
> > previous scratches
> >
> > 3rd grinder diamond/resinbond grit 100, removes previous scratches
> in
> > a tight spiralshape toolpath
> >
> > 4rd grinder diamond/resinbond grit 200, removes previous scratches
> in
> > a less tight spiralshape toolpath
> >
> > 5th-8th, 500-3000 grit in a random pattern
> >
> > so far, the results is ok, but takes an awfull time to hack the
> code.
> > i use a 2d cad to create a pattern for each tool, so its alot of
> > copy&paste
> >
> > it would be sooo easy to just draw my square and hit a key that
> > generates the code with all the different tools pre-stored paths
> and
> > parameters..
> >
> > g, its difficult to describe in english
> >
> >
> > js
>
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