Hi, I am new to this group.I am toolmaker by trade. I have worked with things mechanical all my life and very basic electricity no electronics. got into...
Hi Terry, Welcome, Take a browse through the previous messages on this forum, there's been some discussions on the rotary axes there which should answer most...
Hello to all, I'm a lucky person to find people with a lot off knowlegde about CNC programming and homebuilding gantry mills, I'm a steam model engineer,...
... Helical and herringbone! I'd be likely to do this directly in CAD, but it'd be a nice feature in CNC Toolkit. Given the choice between hand-generating...
Hi Rab Thank you very much your prompt email,sounds great Even greater If you can modify parallel splines. If you could explain to (dumb Alex ) how it...
Just go to Utilities>Preview Tool Motions. robgrzesek <robert.grzesek@...> wrote:I've been looking for a 4-axis simulator but can't seem to find any....
I was actually looking for a standalone program. I've been writing my own CAM software, http://www.robgrz.com/meshcam.phtml , and would like to add 4th axis...
Hi all, Can you use CNCtoolkit to produce a G-code from a 3DS/Gmax model and specify direction of cut? I'm trying to avoid climb cutting on a half hull (yacht)...
It will work great with 3ds MAX V4 zekethebullet <mjusko@...> wrote:Hi all: is toolkit compatable with earlier versions of 3dsmax, or possibly solid model,...
Snip from old post... ... an extra printer card I could get into the 4-axis. The downside is MicroProto is a DOS mode controlled, phased stepper CNC mill. The...
Hi Robert, I've got a way of adding a 3 and 4 axis simulation to the CNC Toolkit, I havn't developed it very far as it comes unstuck for 5-axis work. I'll take...
Hi, It can't do this just now, but I'll see if it can be added when I start work on the code for gear cutting which looks like it will need a retract and...
Hi Tom, That teaches me to ask for feature requests :) ! However, I think that the Helical and Herringbone should be possible to do by manually editing the...
Hi Alex, It looks like the tool needs to retract at the end of the cut before returning the start the next tooth ? I like the way that people on these forums...
... There's another alternative I used. A guy by the name of Peter Homann makes an add-on card for the Microproto controller called a TurboTaig that'll turn...
Tom, how well does the Microproto software handle constant velocity machining, ie. does it start / stop when a machining a curve made up of many small linear...
... Man, I have no idea. I bought mine before the Microproto software was written. Right now I'm using TurboCNC, which doesn't do constant velocity machining....
Are there any other programs similar to turboCNC that do constant velocity machining? ... Man, I have no idea. I bought mine before the Microproto software...
... The only problem with the Xylotex boards is the paltry 2.5A per phase. Exceed it, or run at it for any length of time and you WILL blow them. -- Steve...
Clear DayHigh Tom, Rab,High all Tom this may or may not interest you, for years I have subscribed to various catalogs the in question is MACHINISTS WORKSHOP...
It's difficult to maintain compatibility across the different versions of MAX. I use some features only found in version 4 and upwards so I doubt I'd be worth...
Hi Rab, I just started putting up the framework for my web site (www.wrathall.com - nothing of interest there yet), and added a link to your site. To the...
I'd definitely be interested! That's the one thing that just keeps getting me about this hobby. I didn't even know HSM or MW existed until December, 1999. I...
Hi Mark, I've drilled in the past using a bunch of two point splines although I think that it would be a good function to have a drill cycle based on...
