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General Mach Discussion / newbie help
« on: February 21, 2008, 03:39:43 PM »
I am thinking of doing the full purchase but I have some questions. I think it would be better to give you some background. My company builds airplanes and I have a cnc router that the engineer that I bought the company from built in 1992 from scratch. I have been able to take control of the machine with the mach 3 software but I am having trouble with the G-code. The code that was written for the machine is very simple it has I think 5 different codes that the machine work it is not G-code it is his own code. We are able to get the parts into rhinoceroses (Rhino) and convert it to a dxf but now what. The whole program is based on a 1/8 inch bit and I need to write tool path because lazy cam is not understanding the dxf well enough to produce good G code.
Question
1. will the licensed version help with any of my problems?
2. I am going to buy it anyway but should I buy rhino cam as well so I can edit tool path?
3. Is there a program that I can put my existing code into and convert the commands to G-code
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Question
1. will the licensed version help with any of my problems?
2. I am going to buy it anyway but should I buy rhino cam as well so I can edit tool path?
3. Is there a program that I can put my existing code into and convert the commands to G-code
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