6 Apr 2019, 06:31

Alejandro Silvestri
Someone looking for generate G-Code?
Someone intereted in its development?
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Alejandro Silvestri
+Сергей Шатунов , I think I can help.
Let's talk a little more about this.
I'm familiar with mill: it has a vartical cilyndrical tool, only matters the diameter, so the toolpath will spare the radius from the edge.

As you can apreciate, english's not my first language. It's my last language 🙂

Mar 22, 2015
Alejandro Silvestri
There are many strategies for toolpaths. Mainly two: you can follow contours on planes XY, or you can follow profiles, the contours on planes XZ or YZ.

Mar 22, 2015
Alejandro Silvestri
Is there a way to "emboss" bodies? If we can inflate bodies 2mm in XY planes, we can get directly the toolpath for 4mm mill.

Mar 22, 2015
Alejandro Silvestri

+Сергей Шатунов , I wrote you to that address, it seems it isn't working.

I'm thinking on sliding the solid to get a thick slide, as thick as the tool's diameter. I get the slide buy cutting the solid with the two sides planes:

var slide = solid.cutByPlane(plane1)
.cutByPlane(plane2.flipped());

var shape = slide
.projectToOrthoNormalBasis();

var path = shape.getOulinePath();

Mar 30, 2015
Jeff Gay
Moderator
There's import of Gcode in openscad.js which may be helpful.