Thomas wrote : > I think possibly for many EMC users, CAM is not an easy thing. Many > plasma applications are using artistically oriented patterns and > programs, such as clipart or truetype font cutouts and without a decent > CAM, offset functionality can be a huge advantage. One could argue that > offset functionality is a CAM issue altogether, but fortunately, there > is a G-code for it :) dave wrote: > > > Synergy (www.webersys.com) takes an interesting approach; it will cut > into the corner as far as it can w/o gouging. Then you either use a > smaller cutter or the corner routine with a smaller cutter to > appropriately clean out the corners.
gcode plugin for inkscape do things like this also. For those like thomas said that uses EMC for "artistically oriented" cuts, where precision in not really important, could be a simple solution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
