![]() I have known people have difficulties programming 4-axis machining with CAM Works because their license only allowed 3.5 axis programming and SolidWorks want you to buy a more expensive license for 4 or 5 axis CAM… So if you have the traditional 3 axis machine with a 4th rotary axis bolted to the bed then CAM Works standard license would let you rotate the part then do a 3 axis operation but it wouldn’t allow all 4 axes to move at once. There could be some reason why the CAM software is ignoring features. Simple example… you have a circular pocket radius 10mm but only a 12mm radius cutter. But Termite was promised to be posted to this site in 2016 and there is nothing else and it’s now 2020.ĭo you mean that some geometries of your design simply do not get machined? This could be due to a variety of reasons. The technical paper published about it sounds very good. The most intriguing thing is that there seem to be several groups that developed Grasshopper plug ins that would directly output toolpaths for a CNC machine. In particular, I worry about the following - a design done largely in Grasshopper, and then Baked to go into Rhino may not have the same continuity with CAM tool paths as one that was built in Rhino. RhinoCam is a possible alternative but since it is quite expensive I want to make sure it actually will do what I want. There may be a way to automate that via Excel - I found a forum post here that discusses that. ![]() I am told that if my designs were in Solidworks then the update process would be simpler, because it could recognize that it was the same model, but with some dimensions changed. Then when we make changes and iterate a design, the manual intervention has to happen all over again. ![]() The manual intervention point is even more annoying. ![]() The 5-axis point is a bit frustrating - the machine can clearly do the 5-axis moves, and while creating the Grasshopper definition for my design I know a lot about the geometry that isn’t expressed in the final 3D mode. We have been using normal CAM software, such as CAMworks, but it isn’t very sophisticated about 5-axis, and it requires lots of manual intervention. I am trying to use grasshopper to design woodworking items to be made with a 5-axis CNC router. ![]()
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