Originally Posted by
ger21
Cabinet Solutions website has basically zero info on their cnc export.
You need to learn and understand how the process works, before you spend your money.
Most likely, Cabinet Solutions is exporting individual .dxf files for each part, alonf with a .CSV "parts" file that contains part sizes, quantities, .dxf names, and other things.
Enroute is probably reading the parts file, and subsequently reading the .dxf files, creatings toolpaths, nesting the toolpaths, and exporting the g-code, all in one automated process.
Aspire can do a limited version of this.
1) Aspire has a batch .dxf import gadget, that will import all .dxf files from a folder. This has a few limitations. One, all parts would need to be the same thickness. Two, there's no way top specify individual part quantities, so you'd need a unique .dxf file for every part.
2) After doing the batch import, you can select all the parts, and nest them fairly easily. I suspect that Enroute would allow you to specify grain direction on a per part level, so that parts with grain direction would not be rotated during nesting, but parts without grain could be rotated. With Aspire, this would be a global setting during nesting.
3) Once nested, you would use toolpath templates to automate toolpath creation. Once toolpaths were created, you'd need to manually export the g-code for each sheet of nested parts.
I've never used Enroute, but I've been doing this type of work every day for over 20 years (Currently using AlphaCAM). Once you export from your cabinet software, processing for the CNC should be a " 1 button click" process, with the right software. With the wrong software, A 1-2 minute process could take an hour or two, or longer.
You don't need more than 18,000 rpm to cut cabinet parts. Our $150,000 router has an 18,000 rpm spindle, and cuts 5x faster than an AVID machine will.