Slicing
If you’ve been following the support group you’ve see that there’s been a lot of discussion about adding the slicing mode that was in version 1.18. I removed it in V2 with the intention of adding it back in but never got around to it. Yesterday I began writing code for the new slicing mode and came across the old disabled command from 1.18. I reenabled it and, to my surprise, it worked well. The old dialog did not support mm and inch input so I had to fix that. The images were not up to my...
read moreBuild 6701
Jay H. pointed out a bug in the latest releases where the geometry supports are ignored when a toolpath is calculated. I fixed that and posted a new release at http://www.grzsoftware.com/files/MeshCAM2-6701.exe . Try it out and let me know how it works.
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Jeff D. was the first to point out a significant bug in the latest releases. It turns out that the finish path could gouge if the roughing tool was much bigger than the finishing tool. This was due to a bug in one of my optimizations and has been fixed in 6699 at http://www.grzsoftware.com/files/MeshCAM2-6699.exe . Build 6699 has a few other little fixes and tweaks in addition to the big bug above. I also added Lua scripting access to modify some of the internal machining parameters for the real tweakers out...
read moreBuild 6689
OK- the testing went better than I thought so I’m posting a new release here for everyone here to try out. There’s still some improvements to be made for the pencil and waterline paths but in all of the testing I’ve done over the past few weeks of development it seems much better than any of the previous releases. Let me know how it works. http://www.grzsoftware.com/files/MeshCAM2-6689.exe
read moreNew Finishing Option
In the past people have requested a way to have the finishing toolpath ignore the top of the stock if it’s just going to try and machine it flat. This would be a great option if you’re trying to machine a mold or something similar where your stock is already machined on the top face. When I redid the code for the parallel finish I made sure to add support for this feature. I planned on waiting to add this option to the dialog since it would require modifying the code for the dialog- never a fun thing to do. ...
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