Having built my machine with help from Dean. I am now trying to write the gcode for the 3D components I built the machine for, some audio wave guides (horns) The build strategy for these is to build them up from layers of birch ply. As the finished components are over 700mm tall I am intending to glue together 14 slices each 50mm thick, with dowels to transfer the datums between the slices.
I have become competent in 2d programming in aspire and have made a number of jigs etc.
Have been trawling through the aspire videos to work out how to program the machining of these 3D slices. What I wanted to do is machine 2d tool paths and 1mm depth increments. I can manually do this and have done this to demonstrate a point. Is there an easy way of automating this is I would have 700 paths on the inside and the same again on the outer profile to do.
I had tried importing a 3D model into aspire and allow it to do the paths but the stl file seems to loose detail.