I 'll take a shot at it, if you can tell me what it needs to do......

scott

gee thanks john it sure came out nice cant wait to give it a trial run.thankyou so much

I realise that it can be done in CAD as can most of what the other wizards do.

Here's what I am talking about but you need to D/L a program to see it.
Go here to get the D/L
http://www.colinusher.info/Software/index.html

And then here's a shot of the screen.

http://www.colinusher.info/Software/CNC%20menu.html

Near the bottom left is the menu for 'Cutting a spoked wheel' which when opened gives you various options.

This software is workable but very basic, it writes to the PP on the fly and doesn't store it as code, or not that I can find.

The whole program is wizard operated and there are some nice ones that would do well ported over to Mach. I was looking at it more for trying to grab the code than run it as a program.

John S.

Please try the new version of 'Master CNC Utilities', and the new program 'Wheels' at the new website.
www.alanjmunday.info

Here you can find a free gear generator: http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html it outputs HPGL code, but I found that coreldraw have an import filter for it BUT, its not in the default install, so you have to select it at install time.

cheers

I can do this, if there is interest. Show of hands please, for those interested?

I'm very interested.  I'm in the process of trying to generate the code for such a project now.

Vince

Hi
I have just completed a set of wheels for a grandfather clock I am building I drew the wheels in Autocad saved them as a dxf imported them into Lazycam and got perfect results with all my wheels perfectly crossed out.I am noe in the process of cutting the teeth using the gear cutting wizard,

Biffo

I know this is not what you want to do, but here is a way.
Use the wheel program to get a pic of the finished displayed wheel.
Now invert the picture ( don't have to but it just looks better ).
 Print it out and use Copycat to generate the code. Do one or all the spokes ( a single quadrant with gcode and use a rotary table to index it ). Faster than you can draw it!
There are some image to gcode conversion programs out there.
This gets you away from CAD. 

BTW, you can use scale to what you want in MACH or scale the image before using COPYCAT.
RICH

MODIFIED: ADDED A PICTURE OF THE GCODE FROM ONE OF THOSE MAGIC WAND CONVERTING PROGRAMS.
               I could probably get the gcode for the  whole piece, but what do you want for a minutes work! 

Why not use 'Master CNC Utilities 2" to directly do your crossing out?

Go to www.alanjmunday.info. Click on 'Info' for Master CNC Utilities, then click on 'Interfaces' and follow the advice I have been given.

I have used MasterCNC for this very job, and it work well + its easy to use.