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« on: November 30, 2008, 12:14:07 AM »
"drawing of the tool bit", HMM.....
Haven't the fogiest idea of what it takes to do programing for something.
Before CNC if you wanted to do a profile you ground a tool to cut that small piece of profile.
The candle stick has curves which conventional tooling would never do. But, you can make a tool shape which
would do a weird / tough turning. So if once the widling of stock is done, you can use an unconventional tool or multiple tools to go in and machine it,....that's something that no other software may provide. It would require
option to stay out of parts of the profile, and then selectively do other typical machining to widle away more to make room for the drawn tool.
Maybe, if lazyturn allows you to pick a section of the profile and generate code based on a point tool ( like using the button) then you have accomplished that already. The difference being that it's up to the operator to figure out how he is going to do it ie; plunge some, then turn some, or whatever, and finaly profile.
Make any sense?
RICH