Installer Fixed
With the help of a handful of dedicated users I now think I’ve gotten tot he bottom of the "Can’t save registration information" problem. It turned out to be an installer mistake a few releases ago that left bad data behind. A new release at http://www.grzsoftware.com/files/MeshCAM2-6901.exe should fix the problem. There are several other fixes so try it and let me know what you think.
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I just uploaded another to- http://www.grzsoftware.com/files/MeshCAM2-6897.exe It fixes the following items: 1) Fixed error where settings were not saved on exit. Turned out to be an installer problem. 2) Tool list is now saved after any change or addition to the list (Randy G-G). 3) Hopefully resolved an assertion error in cl.cpp that could occasionally occur. (Jeff D.) Let me know if it works...
read moreThe Ripples Continue…
The waves of change created from the toolpath refinement updates have now hit the waterline and pencil code. The code that pieced together the waterline and pencil paths was written for the old refinement code and, as Adam demonstrated, left something to be desired with the new refinement code. It turned out to be a < 1 minute fix after tracking down the problem. The photo below shows the output- note the smooth output and the lack of little path segments. Jay pointed out some unintended changes to the...
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I just uploaded a new test release that includes the fixed toolpath refinement and updated tolerance code. I would suggest that you not set the tolerance below .001" to start with because that will now give a much better finish than before. You can download it at http://www.grzsoftware.com/files/MeshCAM2-6887.exe . Let me know what you think and what the calculation times end up being for an equivalent quality (not equivalent tolerance) toolpath. No other bugs have been addressed. I will being working...
read moreLurking Bugs
It always seemed a little odd to me that I had to set the tolerance below .001" to get a toolpath that I liked. A thousandth of an inch, in general, should be more than enough accuracy for almost any "normal" application. It wasn’t until the last batch of updates that I came to my code to reduce the number of vertices in a polyline and found old code that I thought had been updated long ago. There was potential for the polyline to be eroded away beyond the tolerance setting specified that needed to be...
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