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  1. 30-09-2010 #1
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    Now I don't expect many people on this forum are going to be making wind turbine blades, but I thought I'd post the program I've written anyway.

    Any ideas on how to make it more efficient/better toolpath are welcome. Currently mach3 simulation suggest it will take 5 hours to cut one side of my 1.68m blade.

    I've not added any error checking yet, so don't be surprised if you crash it! [Consider it an 'Alpha' release.] The Gcode it generates looks fine in Mach3, but I've not tried running it yet.

    I should probably use C not Vb6...it'd almost certainly be a lot faster.
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