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Third party software and hardware support forums. => Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards => Topic started by: Sage on February 22, 2012, 08:12:30 AM

Title: NFS Surface wizard still needs some work
Post by: Sage on February 22, 2012, 08:12:30 AM

Besides the post I made here almost a year ago which I forgot about:
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,17549.0.html

I needed to do some surfacing again and went to the NFS surface wizard (V286). I found another oddity.

Unlike the other wizards (like the pocket wizard) the depth needs to be a negative number and the depth per pass needs to be posiitive (or perhaps it doesn't care).
Yeah, I know the depth is in the negative direction but the standard amongst programs in general (and the NFS wizards themselves in particular) is a positive (absolute) value for depth.

As a follow up to the  problem I linked to, I spec'd a depth of 0.01 and depth of cut of 0.01
One would think that should be one cut - and would want it to be.
The wizard takes two passes of 0.005. I'd like to see it do what I asked. Not what decides. I should be in control.

Ron: Clearly this one can use some re-work.

My apologies if you have already fixed it and there is a new version somewhere.



Sage

Title: Re: NFS Surface wizard still needs some work
Post by: Sage on March 24, 2012, 11:08:28 AM

Just bringing this back to the top again. It got buried with no coments.

Sage