Basically just trying to build a 2 1/2 axis programming system that takes out some of the drudgery.
I am hoping to figure out how to pick a boundry and have cadkey create the cuts.
where the CDE would come in is in attempting to create 3-D surface milling.
Right now I manually build the cuts I want then I can pick the chain and create a toolpath. Not a lot of advantage, except I can see that my cuts are good when I create them and I don 't have to do a bunch of math.
also I am going to attempt to output a CL file instead of a machine specific NC file. That way I can create a postprocesser and not a new script for each machine.
I am doing this more for the challenge than any great need.
Doug |