New Support Forum

May 13, 2008 · Filed Under MeshCAM Development 

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 posts can be added to the Yahoo group.

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3 Responses to “New Support Forum”

  1. Jim Connerton on May 27th, 2008 9:20 am

    Hi Robert,

    I love your program and your continuous improvement efforts! I would like you to consider adding a feature. I would like to be able to save a model in Meshcam format after it has been rotated, translated, scaled, and with program zero altered. Some of the models I am working with take a little bit of effort to get to this stage, and it would be nice to bring the model back in to MC with all the mods. As it is now each time I bring in the same model I need to go through all those setups again. Thanks for your consideration and help. Jim

  2. Robert on May 27th, 2008 11:20 am

    I think this will probably appear now that I have the code done for saving toolpath information. A lot of the infrastructure can be reused for this as well.

    It will probably be a few months though because I’m making a lot of internal changes to add new functionality. I do not want to have to change the file format later to add the new information required by these changes.

    -Robert

  3. Jim Connerton on June 3rd, 2008 6:23 pm

    Hi Robert,

    I thought of a few more additions for you to consider. When using the water line path, on an object like an upside down icecream cone, the tool path seems to go in both directions CW and CCW with random decission. Would you consider adding some check boxes that would force the path to be, CW, CCW, zig-zag or alternate. Something else nice would be to be able to select “from top down Z” or “from bottom up Z”, so the lowest waterline could cut first and then step up for the next path. One final thing for now is what would you think about a spiral or helical set up option. That may help eliminate the high Z moves between paths. Thanks so much, I am having lots of fun learning MC.
    Jim