Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CAD2lathe software

Jack

I understand... I am trying to get Ubuntu/ EMC2/ and HeeksCad and
HeeksCNC to work. Sorry but I am a Windows guy trying to make sense of
all this. Missing Icons, no clue if it is installed correctly, is this
the current version let alone how to make it go,,, oh that's right, the
GO icon is missing. I just had to walk away again, swearing out loud
with no one to hear. Not a happy camper, I need a few minutes and we
will have another go at it.

Dan

On 8/9/2011 2:46 PM, Jack wrote:
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> Dan,
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> Yes, I was saving as R12 but there are 3 different types of R12 and
> more stuff to mess with if you dig far enough. I thought a dfx was a
> dfx until this mess. There is a lot more to this than I am willing to
> battle with.
>
> I need a lathe cam that will do the job w/o lots of fiddling. Being
> able to draw tool paths looked easy and the price was right (wrong!)
>
> I have considered hacking with Rhinocam as a code generator and may
> try that. More likely I will buy VisualTurn eventually but can't
> afford it now.
>
> Jack
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO%40yahoogroups.com>, Dan Field <danfield@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I too was going to suggest maybe you have to export as R12 or ???.
> > Again not cad2lathe but I had another issue with DevCad which might be
> > similar to yours. Now I still don't understand exactly what the
> > problem is. I was just making a simple Circle of which I wanted to cut
> > with my CNC Hotwire in foam. The easiest method in a CAD program is
> > the the Radius circle where you simply left click hold and then drag to
> > what ever radius or diameter you want and then let go. Same for
> > rectangles or squares. Well, there is also for circles a 3 point arc
> > to complete your circle method, keep this in mind.
> >
> > So there is my radius circle, it exported just fine as R12 ( which the
> > foamcutting program needs ). It also imported just fine, there is my
> > circle now showing up in the Foamcutting software but no go. There are
> > some tricks in the Foamcutting software to "align" points, change the
> > direction and or the start point and such but nothing was working, it
> > would not cut.
> >
> > Off to the Foamcutting Programmer, here is my file and it won't
> > cut..... He came back a few days later and says your circle is an
> > "Object", it has no beginning nor end ???? Use the 3 point Arc method
> > to make your circles. This even though in the Foamware I could see
> > Points, there was a zero starting point and a higher point number right
> > next to it.
> >
> > I don't understand the difference but using 3 point Arc solved the
> > problem. CAD and I don't get along very well for these reasons. I
> > make what I think are rather simple things and there can be some issues
> > that are not very clear, at least not for me.
> >
> > I just bring this up as I don't know HOW you made your drawing. Same
> > thing for rectangles, you have to do individual lines and then join
> > them. Or explode to polylines and then join or close, I never know
> > what I am supposed to do, I just keep banging away until it works or
> > beats me.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/9/2011 11:16 AM, Brian Worth wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Jack, instead of saving your polyline as a dxf, use the "export"
> > > command. Then check the schema that it is exporting in, R11, R12 or
> > > whatever, and use "edit schemes" to see that polylines are
> exported as
> > > polylines, and not the default "lines". Hope this helps, shout if you
> > > need more help.
> > >
> > > Regards, Brian
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Jack <freshwatermodels@...
> > > <mailto:freshwatermodels%40yahoo.com>>
> > > To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > <mailto:CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 17:35
> > > Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] CAD2lathe software
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have cad2lathe which looked pretty crude but for what I do I thought
> > > it would work. I design in Rhino and can save a dxf file for
> > > cad2lathe. Sadly cad2lathe seems to see my polylines as line segments.
> > > Any ideas of what is going wrong and how to solve the problem? I
> > > really don't want to invest big bucks for lathe cam and cad2lathe
> would
> > > suit my use if I can get it to work.
> > >
> > > Any insight and/or solutions appreciated!
> > >
> > > Jack
> > >
> > > __.
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