Roger,
> Eric,
> Personally, I think the best way to cut insanely small segments is not to
> generate them. Instead of doing a P0.1 on the machine side change your
> tolerance
> on the CAM side. I do a lot of contouring in using VisualMill and the size of
> the G-code varies in direct relationship to the tolerance. I'm not doing high
> precision molds in a climate controlled shop so a couple of thousandths of an
> inch on contouring is usually fine.
>
I have this problem with the insanely small (0.1 mm) segments.
The problem is that I can not set the tolerance on the CAM side the way
I like. I use DeskProto and DP uses a raster to 'scan' an STL model and
create the G-code from there. There is no way to tell DP to follow lines
in the Z-height with a certain precision, it just follows lines in the X
direction with a given step size in the Y direction to derermine the
Z-height at each point.
If only they would have made it such that I could create lines in the
X-direction and tell DP to follow the contour with a given precision
that would have been great. DP has different algorithms for different
purposes but just not the one that I mostly use. I already thought of
writing my own software for this special case and maybe I should just try.
Regards,
Rob
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