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« on: April 07, 2008, 04:26:42 PM »
I finally found out how to post (the "new" post button is real small on my monitor)
I did post questions re Lcam on the Yahoo group and normally a responce is real quick but it
seems the guys over there are very busy discussing Acceleration, newtons, g forces
and the relative merits of same in 3D milling.
That post went as follows:
Is there a way to cancel the default post processor? I don't need the
G91.1, M9, G41 H3. I'm growing tired of editing those items out.
Also Lcam likes to insert a move to safe height at the end of each
pass through a multipath depth cut, why? again I am growing tired of
editing out this move.
Is there any further development happening with Lcam. I find a number
of irritating foibles with it which I know could be corrected and
make the Lcam even better than it already is.
I find that there are too many different places and screens that must
be visited so as to complete all of the information required to get a
good tool path. It's just too easy to make a mistake or forget to
enter all the info.
I'm no expert in CNC machinging but I worked in other areas where
human input is required, parameter inputs were always kept in one
place and usually kept in a logical sequence. Why is it still
required to enter a tool diameter in the offset screen and yet still
have to separately enter a tool in the tool window, would this not
normally be the same diameter as that use in the offset window?
Perhaps this is something to do with the use of offsets setup by appropriate G codes
(Instructions in a manual would likely help here).
Has any one compiled a basic listing of how to setup Lcam? How does
one set up a personal safe height that Lcam defaults to rather than have
to accept the 1.0000 it now insists on presenting, is there a place
to change this?
How does one write ones own post processor, what is the format of a
post processor? Is it proprietry?
I bought a pro license sometime ago, the outlook for Lcam looked
pretty good then but progress appears to have stalled. I've had license for Mach for over three years .
I'm just hoping I will be able to navigate back to this thread to pickup any answers.
I'd much rather be unravelling some brass than wrestling with the labarynth of links
required to get around the internet to get answers. Once again a manual (hint hint) would be real peachy.
Mike