On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:45 PM Valerio Bellizzomi <vale...@selnet.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 21:27 +0200, Roland Jollivet wrote: > > I had a quick look at PyCAM, and FreeCAD's Path Workbench. > > > > >From what I see, neither seem to do rest milling (rest machining), which is > > a limitation of most of the free packages and makes it pretty useless for > > multiple cutters unless you are extremely vigilant on what was not cut. > > > > Or do they do rest milling? > > I have no idea of what it is, but there is a feature request: > > https://github.com/SebKuzminsky/pycam/issues/120
I think "rest machining" refers to doing initial machining passes with a large-diameter cutter, having the CAM keep track of the remaining material that needs to be removed, and then doing finishing passes with a smaller-diameter cutter to remove that remaining material. For example, think of a large pocket with sharp corners, roughed out with a large endmill and then finished with a small endmill. The feature request you linked above is different (and simpler): it's just to do "normal" machining operations on *select* features in the model, instead of applying the operations to *all* features of the model. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
