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 moves. But I need something that will take a dxf file of a surface I draw in Cadkey, make lots of planes at the stepover increments and intersect the planes and surface for a quick and accurate toolpath), then can send a dxf file out. All I need is something to read the dxf and output G01 moves in X, Y and Z, all one line. Don't need coolant, Mcodes, all that fancy stuff.
I can't seem to find anything free or cheap which does all three axes. Help? Seems like it should be a cinch to write up.
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 line/arc entities which I need to generate g code and coords for. I attached the dxf file
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 line/arc entities which I need to generate g code and coords for. I attached the dxf file
Hi there,
from what you say you effectively want to gcode a .DXF toolpath that has nodes distributed through 3 dimensions.
CamBam or gmax/CNC_Toolkit can generate gcode for this kind of .DXF
EDIT: See the image below for your file loaded in CamBam FREE Beta...
Hope this helps
Danny
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