Check Surfaces / New Release
I’ve been working for a few days with a large company to see if MeshCAM can be used to automate their machining process. They have a few things that need to be added and then a bunch more existing features that will have to be exposed via the Lua scripting. Largely these changes match my existing plans so I’ve decided to give it a shot. The first change was the need to add Check Surfaces. These are additional polygon/STL surfaces that are used to represent things like tooling, shutoff surfaces, and parting...
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I’ve been trying to work through some problems for Brett P. and he got me thinking that I need a way to duplicate as many user settings that a customer uses to reproduce some bugs. This got me thinking more about the Lua code I’ve got built it and it turns out to be a very good data parser. I was able to implement the ability to save and load toolpath settings in about two afternoons once I figured out how I wanted to do it. The data is all saved as a Lua table which is editable outside of MeshCAM if you...
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I just got done adding a new support forum at http://www.grzsoftware.com/forum . Yahoo Groups was fine 3 years ago, but it’s looking pretty unprofessional to have it hosted there now. It’s also painful- for me at least- to browse through everything and keep up to date. Hopefully this new forum will be better for everyone. It would help if readers here can go create accounts, log in, and poke around. If it seems to be working then I’m going to change the link on the website over and make it so no new...
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