CAM for CNC code for cutting trispokedovetiles (3-spoke dovetailing tiles)

[Neale]

It will be great to see an academic exercise turn into reality! Out of curiosity, what CAM package will you use to go from dxf to gcode?

[needleworks]

It will be great to see an academic exercise turn into reality! Out of curiosity, what CAM package will you use to go from dxf to gcode?

I`ll be using cambam, just going to try it right now, back in 10 mins

[needleworks]

Well that was quick & painless, seems to have worked a treat






Thanks to Neale & Peter.

[Neale]

Excellent. Good to see that it all works. I think that the corner radius was a good plan as it makes the design accessible to those with routers but not laser/plasma/water jet cutters (which probably means most of us) but thanks to Peter for the initial idea and doing the bulk of the leg work.

Needleworks - you need to make another 3 or 4 more. People see them sitting on a flat surface and can't help picking up a tile, turning it round, and dropping it back in somewhere else. At least, they do with my Escher reptile-based design, and I can't see why these shouldn't work as well.

[Peter Dow]

Well that was quick & painless, seems to have worked a treat






Thanks to Neale & Peter.

Very nice! The first ever trispokedovetiles to make it off the drawing board into real life!

[Peter Dow]

TRISPOKEDOVETILES ROUTER CUTTING

My trispokedovetile CAD-CAM webpage now offers an (X,Y,Z) option for router cutting using rotary tool paths between spaced out tiles -


I've simulated the CNC router code -

[magicniner]

Excellent!
It now merits the designation CAM ;-)

- Nick