Does anyone know of any open source lathe simulation software?
Does anyone know of any open source lathe simulation software?
By open source do you mean user configurable or just free s/w?
If the latter, then there is http://www.cncsimulator.com/
Al.
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Albert E.
By open source I mean software that distributes the source code.
Not sure if it would satisfy what you need but they do have a link for 'Plug-in interface for developers' using C++.
Al.
CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design (Skype Avail).
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert E.
this interesting.. i think i'll stay around
I've been thinking about coding a cutting simulation which could work for both mills and lathes. It would be based on an octree data structure to model the stock. I've played around a bit with visualizing things in 3D using VTK.
If anyone has code or info on how to draw octrees in VTK I would be interested.