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  1. Re: Cant seem to stop my holes from snapping in the wrong direction.

    I always model in Shark and then CAM in Fusion. But if I ever need to add some geometry for machining, in DESIGN the model defaults to inch even though I have mm set as default. I export from Shark...
  2. Re: Looking for new CAM software to replace Inventor/Fusion/HSM. Engrave curve?

    This all depends what you want and what you want to do.
    Dolphin mill and lathe are both excellent CAM programs. Even the Hecks 3D is good (although my biggest gripe is it doesn't support adaptive...
  3. Re: Cant seem to stop my holes from snapping in the wrong direction.

    I love shark. Such cool software.
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    Re: Computer to run CAD, Fusion 360

    In my opinion, the graphics card is the most important consideration for fusion.
  5. Re: How do I add several stl files in v-carve pro?

    100%
    This is not what V-Carve is about. Blender is another great program for this.
  6. Re: Support Video - How to create sketches and machine a roughing path on a cavity.

    When's your new version releasing? You need adaptive toolpaths!!!
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    Re: Dolphin still in business?

    Fusion is killing everyone. Depending on what you are doing Dolphin is excellent software.
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    Re: Saving Files in VCarve Pro 10

    You can save it to whatever you want. In your post change
    FILE_EXTENSION = " "
  9. Re: Any chance STEP and Surface/Solid models will be supported?

    As Gerry said, it's pixel based so that will never change. I have played with resolutions etc and on machining steel 200mm x 200mm you are more likely to get error from your machine than the...
  10. Re: Any chance STEP and Surface/Solid models will be supported?

    Nothing beats Fusion, but I would strongly suggest DolphinCAM Pro is not only cheaper, it's way more advanced.

    In relation to Vectric, pull the vectors of in your cad, Save them to dwg/dwf file...
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    Re: Dolphin still in business?

    Yes. Email them!
    [email protected]

    BTW. There is a charge for transferring your licence
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    Re: Snaps - a pain in the arse. Help?

    Works well. Cheers
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    Re: New Fusion 360 limitations

    Fark. But I reckon $1000 for 3 years is excellent value. I started a thread sometime ago about Fusion 360 because this was expected....
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    Re: New Fusion 360 limitations

    I didn't see that. I thought the only change in CAM was no rapids?

    Wrapping on Vcarve also has a way to go. Fusion 360 indexing is great, but the rotary wrapping is just as great. You can wrap...
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    Re: Has Fusion killed the CAM Market?

    https://youtu.be/SlnEThQ4HR8
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    Re: New Fusion 360 limitations

    kstrauss, I don't/wouldn't use Vectric or Autodesk for CAD but if VCarve added proper 4th axis indexing/machining and adaptive toolpaths then I would be happy to use it, Until then no truer word has...
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    Re: HAFCO HM-47 (RF-47) CNC Conversion

    Might be well documented but why waste money on junk in the first place?? To make junk into something decent you will spend more money than just going and buying something decent in the first place....
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    Re: F360 - spiral toolpath on 4th axis?

    Hi dharmic, that is correct, so all three solutions you mention work. The issue is when the rotary toolpaths follow each other they don't reset the WCS. I've been trying to get around this in the...
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    Re: F360 - spiral toolpath on 4th axis?

    Hi Roger,

    I use Linuxcnc, the post code in fusion for bypassing unwind is -
    writeBlock(
    gMotionModal.format(0),
    conditional(abcFormat.format(abc.x) == 0, "G10 L20 P#5220 A[#5423 MOD 360]")
    );...
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    Re: F360 - spiral toolpath on 4th axis?

    Yeah, thanks schneik. I've been playing with this for a while now, and although I've had to do quite a bit of fiddling with my post to stop unwinds etc, the rotary tool path on both horizontal and...
  21. Re: We do you guys buy your stock? Steel, mainly aluminium in Australia?

    Cheap! However, I have noticed their aluminium of 6060 is much more "doey" than from Action... which is more "crisp". I find Capral tends to cling and clot more both on the cold saw and end mills.
    ...
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    Re: Has Fusion killed the CAM Market?

    It's a good question. And maybe this will come sooner than later with an ever shrinking marketplace.
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    Re: Has Fusion killed the CAM Market?

    Trouble is mastercam doesn't even compete with $70 per month.

    Yeap, that's sort of my issue too. Once you go fusion toolpaths, your fusion forever with their fd3 format.

    And something else...
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    Has Fusion killed the CAM Market?

    Despite all my resistance, this week I finally surrendered and moved my lathe CAM from Dolphin to Fusion. I had to mess with the post for a day, but now that's sorted, I'm impressed.

    I guess due...
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    Re: Snaps - a pain in the arse. Help?

    Ok, so I just checked this and it will move everything to the plane, but it wont flatten the lines to the same plane. To flatten the lines you need to use Project Curve to Plane. Select XY plane,...
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    Re: Snaps - a pain in the arse. Help?

    You have a couple of options. You can select snap to "plane only" in snaps before you draw... or if you have already drawn things then select all your 2D lines with the align tool (select Centers...
  27. Re: Looking for a laymans explanation of Chip Load and calculations.

    No problem Steve. Hope it helps.

    BTW Always use adaptive strategies and run your cutter at full Vf with 25% of width (optimum load) at depth = to width of cutter... and you'll be cutting chips...
  28. Re: Looking for a laymans explanation of Chip Load and calculations.

    I made a video on this a while ago for hobby machines - https://youtu.be/XW3k96KilNk

    Once you have your feed rate (Vf), a good rule is Vf -30% for ramping, Vf - 70% for plunging, and Vf - 85% for...
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    Re: HAFCO HM-47 (RF-47) CNC Conversion

    Dont. This looks like a total disaster of a machine to cnc. BTW The picture below is using the old lead screw which is a complete waste of time..
  30. Re: We do you guys buy your stock? Steel, mainly aluminium in Australia?

    Even on account they are expensive as.
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