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    Macro use in Sharpcam

    How about an overview of macro use with an example? Something you setup in the post I assume??? When you check the box in the editor specifying to use macros, it inserts macro or subrpitine calls....
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    Default post how set?

    There must be a place where you can specify the default post but where?
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    Configuring "Save As" directory?

    Real basic but an important one. How do I configure the default "Save As" directory so I don't have to paw through my layers of directory to reach the one spot I put all my working SC files?
  4. Re: creating additional post processor on sharpcam

    I just figured out the posts on Sharpcam. Its not hard at all, but there doesn't seem to be any easy help for less than techie users. Look for the events in the code. For basic purposed ignore the...
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    Re: Surfacing and Containment

    OK so I have to answer my own question. Go to menu item "solids">"extract contour from edge" or face or loop as needed. Presto, contour (or lines or closed chain)created as needed for use as...
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    Surfacing and Containment

    I am scooping out a wood chair seat. Surfacing works properly, but I only want the surface machined not the entire seat. The toolpath flows up over the top and over the edge. Containment is needed...
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    Todd- Thanks for your calm confident reply, I was...

    Todd- Thanks for your calm confident reply, I was afraid is was something unconquerable.

    Yes I am using Fagors WinDNC 5.1, even tried 4.1 with no difference. The 8040 control isn't offered in the...
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    Fagor Communicate with laptop or anything!

    I have a Motionmaster 4 axis router with a 8040 control. When I first got it in 03 one of my epole built a cable and linked it into an old laptop with a serial to USB adapter. It worked for several...
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    DXF file attached?

    Here is a retry of the file
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    Has to be dxf, stl or vrml won't work

    On trying that it seems that stl and vrml files need polygons or some sort of face, the files I am using consist of lines or polylines, occasionally arcs. In other words the geometry is only basic...
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    3D dxf to g code converter

    I used to be a happy user ogf ONeCNC til I lost the USB key and they demanded 4K to buy an entire new seat! Forget them- I bang most of my simple files out in notepad- drilling, mortices, straight...
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