Hmm, I'll try & get the Z to change and let you know how I did it

Let the user (god bless them ) define his stock sizes. but otherwise that's exactly what I was thinking

steve

Art,
I'm anxious to try this but I get what you see below.
I have LCam and the Lic.
Do I need to download the latest version ?
I have the version with the mysterious "Assist" button. V2.61
Thanks,
RC

Hi:

 Update your lcam to latest version. It uses that dll as well.

Art

Hi, Art

Looks pretty nice, Seem's to load profiles easer.

When you get to the tool stuff.

I'd like to see an option that just cut's the profile whether it's inside or outside, That let's the User determine the cutter

shape/profile needed to clear the profile.

At this time with LC, It's pretty confusing and hard to get a complete profile to generate.

Thanks Art for All You Do, Chip

OK,

the Z..
The numbers stay the same it just shrinks if you put a bigger stock size in & vice versa, I suppose thats natural

those origin arrow don't show up very well in green against a blue background

I've just imported a dxf but it didn't import it the size it was drawn, is there something I'm missing?, I changed it ok but it's not very lazy (ok I know it's early days yet ) oh length was ok

Here's another one - when stock is same size as job the pentagon goes brown.
A box showing max dia & length would be handy while I'm on  a roll... how about a origin splot you know the white circle with 2 oposite quarters in black.

bonne chance

psst the help file's a bit thin 

HEres an updated program that is more suitable I think. The toolpaths will be generated on the bottom to emulate the lathe from the top. The arrows show the positions
of the stock, profile and bore, they are clickable. The MRU works, and the hovers have a contrast bhox behind them and work much better..

  Stock diamter will appear as highligted rings, click to select, or click on the stock arrow to set it manually. All settings are now autofocus as well so
you can enter easily a change..



 Good ideas..thx..

Art

oh, and the pic..

ART...COOL
The hover box is too small for 4 dec. metric #'s..
The contrast could be better as mentioned earlier..
Keep it up,
Thanks,
RC

 

Hi, Rc

Look at your dxf, It needs to be a single line segment I think.

Post one of them.

Chip

Hi, Art

Numbers not finding the little white windows and 0.0's out of place, unit's based on inch in DXF.

Thanks, Chip