Build 6699

September 17, 2007 · Filed Under MeshCAM Releases 

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 there.  I’ll try to post a Lua script in the next few days that will describe the parameters and show how to modify them.

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3 Responses to “Build 6699”

  1. Jeff Demand on September 19th, 2007 5:47 am

    Robert,

    I just finished a test mill using 6699, very nice results. 6 meg g-code, 1.6mm ball rough, .2mm tapered ball finish and lots of short line segments in the finish cut.

    Jeff

  2. Robert on September 19th, 2007 7:34 am

    Great. I think I’ll probably move this build to the main download page if no bugs are found in the next few days so let me know how your next few jobs come out.

    -Robert

  3. Gerry on September 20th, 2007 4:04 pm

    Haven’t had much time to play with it, but the toolpaths are outstanding, with excellent smoothness. Great job.