Hi John
> The two starting places I'm aware of, in case you end up writing > your own, are OpenSCAM (currently 3D only, but the author seems > to think 5D, and lathes are possible) ... Oh, interesting project, seams to be quite complex and offer a lot of features. I'll take a look at the code and see if it seams to be easy to add 5 axis support. Unfortunately it uses it's own G-Code interpreter. > Anders Wallin's cutsim (library w/no app, 5D capabilities unknown). I'll download the code and take a look. Thanks. Seams like there is some kind of application, tough it might just be a kind of demo. > Let me know if you take this route and get serious about it; > I might like to lend a hand. Well, not sure yet. I need a simulation tool for a complex project, but the milling has to be done within about four weeks and I need to write a set of scripts to generate the tool paths first so there might be no time for the simulation and I might end up testing the code using XPS form on the actual machine. But I don't like his idea as the movements will be complex, often very close to tool/workpiece or tool/machine collisions and use the working area of the machine to the very last mm. The machine is not LinuxCNC powered this case, it has a Siemens Sinumeric 840D controller, but I think LinuxCNC is the best G-Code interpreter so I think it would be a good idea to use it. vismach, that Dave pointed me to is probably a good point to start. I'm thinking about using VTK (www.vtk.org) for a voxel based volumetric simulation of the material removal process and for visualization. I'll see if I can find out how to get the simulated took path from LinuxCNC. It's off-topic, but does anyone know if the Sinumeric control offers a 'simulation' mode, so the G-Code is interpreted by Sinumeric but all machine movement is disabled and the coordinates a just streamed to a client. Kuka robots offer this for simulation, to ensure a simulation result as close to the real movement as possible. See you Florian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
