While my set-up may lack the bling :cool: my new software doesn't. This is the first full size program I have run using Madcam and the pockets came out perfect.....well other than that small mis-alignment I made in the setup. These pockets were cut using three different features of Madcam. Of course roughing, but roughing was constrained by profile curves so it would only rough the pocket and not the top surface of the part. The finishing path was also used with profile curves but also had a clipping plane to make sure the cutter never raised out of the pocked and nicked the surface.

I have had the software about 6 weeks now....I think. My wife has been very ill and had to have emergency surgery for an 18" blood clot so I have not spent very much time at the machine in the past 4 weeks.

Considering the situation I am so pleased I had to post a pic so you guys can see that the software really works. I will carving the outside of the stock today and will post pics of it as well. All made using Madcam and Rhino.

Mike

Mike, did you get out the vernier on the blood clot, I would be dissapointed if you didnt give us the correct measurements.:)

On and a side issue, whats the link for Mad Cam.

Where do these software writers get thier names from? Cam Bam, Mad Cam, Lazy Cam.

madCAM
I thought it was dumb name as well.
Acronym "Mold And Die" CAM

http://www.gvf.se/madcam/start.html


Sorry about that Benny. The Dr's did a doppler image of my wife's right leg and found the clot. You know I'm a believer and the Bible says that " all things work together for good to those that love the Lord and are called according to his purposes". My wife had fallen 4 weeks before they found the clot. She is a kidney transplant patient out 11 years. The Dr told us the anti rejection meds were the cause of the clot and had she not fallen, we would not have been looking for something in the leg. Had it not been found when it was she would not have survived. The surgery was to place a filter in her blood stream between the clot and the heart.

Now on to the Madcam question. I am a user and did not know what darbee just wrote. I know that Joakim's father started writing the program and I "assumed", and yes I know what that does to me, :stickpoke :) that he got tired of trying to find a cam program that did what he needed, got "Mad" and wrote his own! :D I would never say anything to offend, at least no intentionally, but in typing out "MadCam" I have on occasion typed out the word "madcow". Joakim may have to re-name his software since it has started down the path of something much more than mold and die. If you guys have not looked at it in a few days it now has 2, 2.5d. I hope to get to test a new tutorial later on this afternoon. I had emailed a question about creation of a tool path, attached the tool path that I had created and within a couple of hours Joakim had re-done my tool path showing me what he used to get it. This jogged him to start some real tutorials with step by step help.

I think he realized that if he can write a tutorial that I can understand....he will have it made! :idea: I'll do a report here....how's that?

Mike

Here is the finished product......without finish but sanded anyway! :)

I suppose as with any software the more you use it the easier it becomes to use, but that has not always been true with me. In the case of Madcam it is. The only thing negative I would have to say about Madcam is the fact that the documentation does not even get close to discribing everything that can be doen with the software. I have brought this to Joakim's attention and he promised to re-write the docs.

Mike

btw....just as a side note.....my machine time using Madcam tool paths are 70% what they are using a major cam systems tool paths. It seems to create a more lean path than others.