Originally Posted by
daniellyall
Tkamsker I do a lot of 2.5D and 3D so writing na beggar that, hole and threading yer caned cycles work well for that same as planing the top of a bit material, slots. yer they are fine, but if you wont to go flat out like at the limit of a machine HSM is the way to go, but yes $100,000 to $1000000 machines with $10,000 + A year cam. or fusion360 $300 or $1200 a year.
small scale your machine, tormach so on
Ian the big boys on something still use caned-cycles for some simple stuff what will have 5 to 6 lines of code and will run 24/7. and they will learn from the big boys book and the fanic manual.
but you can't do all of them with Mach 3, Mach 4 yes most. you will need years to learn to write code properly.
so for a hobbyist it just a lot easier to use a good cad/cam program like fusion360 to do your work, there are a lot of things out there that will make life easier for you but they are models not bits of code but if you still wont to do everything in Gcode go for it.
what's wrong with a thread about your machine it will help sale them or is it that bad.