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Excel to Gcode

Posted by afogassa
on 2006-05-29 19:19:49 UTC
Hi All,
I'm trying to work with excel to generate a toolpath for my 4th axis.
got a point file from rhino into excel then did the trig to find the z
axis position and A axis angle position from the original x and Y.
The problem is: when going past 180 degres the toolpath gets mirroed
on top of the other 180 deg.
I think I should out put the the degress from 0 to 360 but can't
find a formula to do that.I'm using a circle divided into 4 so the
angles changes from let'say; -65, 65....on every quadrant.
Have tryed to subtract 90 deg from the quadrante but it still gets
mirroed.
BTW: I need to cutout odd shape windows on a ovalshape tube.
Every high end cam software I've tryed don't want to follow a odd
shape line on top off surface when using the rotary axis, it only
wants to machine the Whole surface .Tryed mastercam, powermill, and
Vector,
any Ideas?

Discussion Thread

afogassa 2006-05-29 19:19:49 UTC Excel to Gcode wayne_j_hill 2006-05-29 19:27:39 UTC Re: Excel to Gcode turbulatordude 2006-05-29 21:11:06 UTC Re: Excel to Gcode Tom Hubin 2006-05-29 21:57:12 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Excel to Gcode Chuck Merja 2006-05-29 21:58:31 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Excel to Gcode Tom Hubin 2006-05-29 22:09:49 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Excel to Gcode Graham Stabler 2006-05-30 04:55:47 UTC Re: Excel to Gcode Yesamazza@a... 2006-05-30 08:01:08 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Excel to Gcode wizard692002 2006-05-31 10:09:52 UTC Re: Excel to Gcode afogassa 2006-05-31 10:52:34 UTC Re: Excel to Gcode