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Yes, and no.

SolidCAM works only in SolidWorks.

However, the same company also publishes InventorCAM ( http://www.inventorcam.com/ ), which is effectively SolidCAM for Autodesk Inventor.

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Are you certain? I get 4 places (to the right of the decimal point) only on I and J, not X or Y. For example:

N70 G3 X12.956 Y-3.961 I-1.6664 J-5.4507





By solidworks. Solidworks does...

Yes, I did. No change. :(



UPDATE


Well, I've found a kludge solution: work in metric.

SolidCAM appears to truncate all coordinates to 3 decimal places regardless of what units you...

Sadly neither of Brakeman's changes altered anything.

I tried xpos_f = '5.4/4' and got an extra 0 trailing everything. That seems to imply that SolidCAM only calculates to 1 mil internally. I...

UPDATE

Suspected SolidCAM Bug. See post #5.


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I've been trying to get solid cam to output 4 digits of precision (1/10000 inch), but no matter I do it refuses to give any x/y...

Sure. It's a taig mill and the spindle is attached to the column head and the two aren't guaranteed to be in alignment. The indicator was actually mounted to the head in order to tram the z-column...

It's a homebrew with no brake, which is why I'm worried about it. =)

That's a tempting offer. I have to think about it. I really the idea of using the harmonic drive, but the lack of available torque is a bit of an issue. This one already has poor torque. I'd be...

There's a tool for everything, but I'm not sure I'd choose a .00005" indicator for that job! Lasers maybe?

I wasn't trying to get it vertical to within 1 micrometer over 3 inches, mind you --...

Thanks, great info! I can definitely agree that most rotary tables could take the force no problem, but as this is really a home made job it's not quite true. The max torque on the gears is only...

Well, it was because I didn't want to spend $600 and I snagged this for $150. I didn't realize it would be quite this large. I was thinking I could slap on an L bracket, replace the servo with a...

Hey, that's great info. That's about 50 lbs, so for your example I could mill out about 4 inches along the x-axis safely, or 8 inches in diameter. I saw another example that was 20-40 lbs in a...

Can anyone give me an idea of the force exerted on a workpiece by an endmill (say, 1/4" diameter) in aluminum?

Better yet, how would I go about determining this for an arbitrary material, feed...

How many pounds may I safely put onto my taig? I'm building a 4th axis, but just the gear box is about 17lbs so I'm guessing somewhere around 25-30 lbs when I'm done, and I don't want to destroy the...

I have a 200W, 200V Yaskawa servo I'd like to drive, but the 200 watt servopacks are pretty pricey. Is it possible to use a 100 volt/100 watt servopack? How badly will this effect speed/torque if...

I picked up a harmonic drive+housing+motor from ebay that used to be part of an Epson SCARA robot. The drive is nice, but it is driven by an AC servo motor and I don't really want to use it.

What...

Older NVIDIA drivers cause SolidCAM to crash when performing a solidverify or rest simulation.

Update to drivers later than v178 seems to fix the problem.


Originally this thread was meant to...

Wow, you totally made my day, THANK YOU! Now I know I didn't damage my indicator AND I know how to adjust it... =) =) =)

Thanks. Do you just turn the large black screw to loosen the lever? I tried turning it but it seemed to be very tightly set and I didn't want to damage the unit.

I'm a newb, so forgive my ignorance please!

I purchased a Brown & Sharpe BesTest 7033-5 .00005 indicator, but it did not come with an instruction manual.

1st question: If anyone happens to...

For as nice a little mill as it is for a beginner like me, there are a few really frustrating things about it.

1st, I don't want to over-tighten the Z-axis column, but there's no torque...

Thanks for the help. I purchased a complete set of imperial collets, along with a few different endmills to get me started.

Metric seems to be the more commonly sold set of collets, but since...

A related question is, are either inch or metric mills more common? Perhaps I could buy a nice set of only inch set or only metric that would meet all my needs...

I've got my Taig set up, but I dont' have enough collets yet.

I've been burned in the past by cheap tools, and so I've been hunting for a set of collets that's neither "too good" nor will burn me....

Order went though, or at least I got a confirmation e-mail. Thanks!

I tried to purchase the 540, but I keep getting "We're sorry, but your transaction was not accepted. The following error code was returned: User authentication failed" after I confirm my purchase......

Last I heard the G540 was going to be on sale "sometime next month", which would mean somewhere around mid August too... any change to that?

Having an estimate, even if it turns out to be wrong,...

I did read all those posts, but you know, I logged in on Friday and no one had posted for two weeks. So I posted asking for an update. The very next post was from Marris' reply that included the...

I can't believe what I'm reading.

So Mariss, being a nice guy, chats about his new project, his hopes, his dreams, not with his full customer base like some sort of mass-marketing Nike commercial,...

I think today marks the 2 week mark from when you said it would be two weeks to get new boards -- is there any word on a revised time line?

Thanks