Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Wrapping on a cylinder Solidworks?

You might want to take a look at a program called Artcam....It can be a very
expensive program but has the ability to wrap on a cylinder without any
distortion to your design. The program also has the capability to generate
toolpaths.

>From: "alenz2002" <alenz@...>
>Reply-To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
>To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Wrapping on a cylinder Solidworks?
>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:50:18 -0000
>
>Matthew, I MAY have a program that will help you. It does what you
>want but is written for use with CNCPro and I haven't tried it with
>any thing else. The tricky part is calculating the feed rate. CNCPro
>may be unique, I don't know. Here is how CNCPro works. If a block
>contains an X (and/or Z) and an A it ignores the A and uses in/min
>for the feed rate to move the X distance, and simply commands the A
>to move at whatever rate it takes to get there at the same time,
>(this is disastrous with say a small X and a large A). If the block
>is an A only move, then it assumes that the feed is in deg/min and
>that slows it to a crawl. Therefore my program has to calculate a new
>federate for each block based on this rather strange criteria (and of
>course the radius).
>It's a small file, but I think you need to have VB6 on your machine
>to run it.
>You might contact me off list,
>Al Lenz
>
> "mjf462001" <mjf46@j...> wrote:
> > SolidWorks has let me down :(
> > Does anyone know of a program that will accurately wrap an image or
> > drawing around a cylinder?
> >
> > TIA
> > Matthew
>
>
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