As a result of my work with OpenVoronoi (2d voronoi diagram algorithm) I've experimented with a medial-axis based pocket milling strategy. These two videos show the latest progress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qr8tZXGXZU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfIU_gv0iB8
There's a problem with over-cutting when the pocket rapidly widens or narrows. There's also a lot of air-cutting at the end of a cycle in the MA since the algorithm only keeps track of cut/uncut material behind the advancing cut-arc front. When it comes to the end of a cycle it doesn't know that the area in front already has been cut -> thus a lot of air-cuts. I'm doing these experiments and toolpaths from python scripts that are undocumented and not very friendly to use. There's some ongoing work on making a CAM-toolbox for FreeCAD. This could eventually make its way there. Or if there's interest in a minimal standalone GUI for opencamlib and openvoronoi then let's do that! Anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
