Generating multiple paths at incremental depths -easily

[Chaz]

Have you considered Fusion 360? That's the way to go ....

[magicniner]

Forgive me if this is too left-field or off-the-wall but ..........

If you set up a 3D printing Slicer for a 1mm extruder nozzle, 1mm part wall, no fill and 1mm layer depth then most of what lies between the height moves will be the paths you need, you'd have to weed out extruder commands and apply tool offsets and paste each path into a working code "header and footer".

Just a thought ;-)
- Nick

[EddyCurrent]

Or give CamBam a try;

http://www.cambam.info/downloads/
http://www.cambam.co.uk/forum/index.php

[Ger21]

I think that Cut3D does slicing. MeshCAM does as well.

[Boyan Silyavski]

What and why are you trying to do this way??? You import a model in Aspire, slice it. Then go to machine it 3d. Thats it. It does not loose detail, what could happen is minor artifacts here and there. Nothing that could not be sanded easily when wood.

http://www.vectric.com/support/train...-25d-mach.html video 10

http://fromaspiretobeyond.blogspot.c...made-easy.html

etc. Dont forget to do the dowel holes in model initially before slicing. So when sliced, all will be fine.


Now if it was aluminum, thats another thing. Aspire have made me crazy with its automated decisions and introducing artifacts. Then you need real 3D control, like other suggested Fusion 360 or similar. The problem could be understanding all the toolpath details when programming it.


I had a big brain storm when i felt Aspire is no good for me already and i am no good at programming a 3d machining in a complex CAM