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Path smoothing
« on: November 25, 2020, 06:00:43 AM »
I'm using a program that enables a person to grab the arm of a 5 axis machine and record a path while moving it by hand.  The problem I'm having is the encoders read every jagged movement that I make.  For example a straight line in gcode is pretty clean, but when I pull/push the machine it might be 300 lines of g-code. 

My question:  Is there software that would take my generated g-code/path and clean/smooth it up and make a jagged path to a smooth vector and generate new g-code? 
The finished g-code tolerance could be +/- .250'' max.

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Re: Path smoothing
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2020, 08:35:02 PM »
Most 3D CAM systems can import a point cloud and smooth it out.
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Re: Path smoothing
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2020, 02:02:55 PM »
Thanks for responding.  I'll look into that.