New Roughing Code is Working
I spent most of today on a plane so I had time to get the new roughing code working pretty well. Below is a screen shot of the new roughing code in a usable state: It worked so well, given that it’s new code, that the first thing I did when I checked into the hotel was to backup the code online to make sure I won’t loose it. Once I came up with a strategy for how to implement it the code came together more quickly than I could have hoped. The new code has eliminated all air cutting that existed before...
read moreRoughing Progress
Just to prove that I’m making progress on the roughing algorithm- I had planned to do something more like an offset pocket algorithm but as I’ve been using different commercial programs that have a similar routine I’ve seen how many problems even the big CAM vendors have. Why they allow such a critical part of their program to go out flawed is beyond me. Since you can generally go back and fix the output by changing the outline or stepover it probably isn’t a big limiter for the more...
read moreBuild 5694 Released
Build 5694 has been released to http://www.grzsoftware.com/v2dl.php . There are a number of fixes including many for the 4–axis jobs. Added option to change image file in image size dialog. Fixed Black is Z-/Black is Z+ option in image size dialog. Cannot execute a command if another is already running. (Jeff D.) Fixed bug where first move in a 4-axis program had a feedrate of 0.0. Each index of the 4th axis now generates a comment for those who’d like to search and replace to generate a machine pause instead of an...
read moreInternet Explorer 6 comment posting problem fixed
There was a problem on the new site here where IE6 didn’t show a “Submit” button when you were ready to post a comment. I found the code, CSS again, and removed it so the problem seems fixed. Sorry to those who tried to comment but couldn’t.
read moreBlog Wonkiness
I was told by a user that this new page rendered wrong in their browser. I hadn’t had any problems on Firefox2 and IE7 but when I loaded an old VMWare image with IE6 I was able to get the page to sow in IE6 in a readable way. I haven’t had time to track down the offending CSS problem but I at least found a way to get the page to display. If you come to the website and it looks wrong then email me– you may have a browser that I forgot to test it on.
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