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    super ellipse

    hey i have to make a superellipse on a biesse rover cnc. and i have no idea how to make a program for this. hope you can help me.


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    Hi:
    This may help, with the help of XL spreadsheet you could generate the equation with a set of xy points. This could be read as a point cloud into a CADCAM sytem. From there it's relatively simple to generate the contouring toolpath.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipse

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    I dont know what drawing programme you use but if you give me the parameters of the ellipse i will draw it for you and send it as a dxf.


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