What file format (from Shark FX) should I export to in order to generate the correct tool paths? Yep that fits me as work with one daily and willing be getting another one in the near future. Your in blue my replies below.ĭoes anyone currently own/operate a cnc router? I have a few questions for those of you who do:
#.dxf to cambam how to#
Let's look at some points from you post and how to address them.
#.dxf to cambam pro#
I use Via CAD Pro to generate model for clients as part of my business. EACH PART NEEDS ITS OWN FILE.ĭxf v12 is still standard - cam software (g-code) is simple minded, no need to confuse it with fancy 2000+ files. That is a period, not a pause with exception. If you try to nest and export to dxf you almost will always have wrong side kerf (tool width) issues, and the machine trying to cut outline of material first.Īnd as operator it is the hardest thing to explain to boss men is each part needs its own file. Nesting is a beast, and most shops will next via machine software or 3rd party nesting. operators know what color or layer to pull from. If you have operation (scribe and cut) separate each into own layers. vc is really good and finding overlaps and gaps this way.Įvery shop can take a clean - see above- dxf file and use it. Overlap and gaps are easy to find by selecting entire part and try to extrude to a point in z direction. nc unless you know the machine it is going to.dxf, no splines, no poly lines, no groups, no solids, no overlap or gaps. When you're doing it manually, the things to remember are the tool diameter, which is the amount you've got to offset components from each other, and tabs substantial enough to hold the pieces together so that they don't come free and jostle disastrously about the router and other parts while not being too onerous to separate, in addition to getting the best material utilisation from the sheet stock.ĭo not try and convert to. Layout onto stock sheets is called 'nesting', and that's a specialised software market in itself, because similar software is used to lay out the way that boxes are stacked onto shipping pallets, layout freight manifests, container content consolidation, all sorts of things.
#.dxf to cambam generator#
Respect!) and 2.5D toolpath generator called HeeksCNC that exchanges STEP (solids) with PunchCAD and is a good learning tool (lots of enthusiastic user input) in addition to being useful in its own right. There's a pretty good free/open source CAD app (mind-blowingly good considering that one guy, Dan Heeks, pretty much did it single-handed. dxf is usually fine, some generators recognise polyline arcs, some need them exploded to line segments. Toolpath generation for flat panel routing is essentially 2D offset to compensate for tool diameter.
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