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- Mon Jun 03, 2019 5:52 pm
- Forum: QCAD/CAM
- Topic: CAM Mill amd drill depth of cut
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CAM Mill amd drill depth of cut
Is there any way to change specifying the drill or mill depth of cut or plung by an actual measurement instead of the arcane method of X passes per cycle?
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:09 pm
- Forum: QCAD Troubleshooting and Problems
- Topic: CAM Tool lists
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CAM Tool lists
It would be very convenient if when defining a tool (mill or drill) you could define a zstep rate matched to the tool for the intended material. These tool sets could then be exported, as an example to a series of tool definition files; Tools-Aluminum5052.dxf, Tools-MDF.dxf, Tools-Copper.dxf, Tools-...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 12:23 pm
- Forum: QCAD Troubleshooting and Problems
- Topic: CAM Mill amd drill depth of cut
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CAM Mill amd drill depth of cut
Have used QCAD for a number of years and remain using it as my main 2D cad program. Have recently been using its CAM functionality and am pleased for the most part. One thing I find as an anomaly is specifying the cut of each pass as a count of the total depth as opposed the an actual depth per cut....
- Tue May 21, 2019 2:05 pm
- Forum: QCAD Troubleshooting and Problems
- Topic: G71 Gcode
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4997
Re: G71 Gcode
Thanks for the quick response. I would have thought G21 would set up metric but good to know the header can be altered.
- Tue May 21, 2019 1:50 pm
- Forum: QCAD Troubleshooting and Problems
- Topic: G71 Gcode
- Replies: 2
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G71 Gcode
Using qcad set for GRBL (mm) almost always generates a G71 G91.1 line in the exported gcode header. The G91.1 is fine but G71 just stops the controller, always need to manually edit the generated file and remove it. Any ideas as to why this is happening, G71 in the case of standard mil/drill operati...
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:53 am
- Forum: CAM Expert Suggestions and Feedback
- Topic: Cam expert for ubuntu 10.04
- Replies: 1
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CAM Expert on Ubuntu 10.4
The CAM Expert Demo works under Ubuntu 10.4, download the version requiring libstdc++.so.5, then before running the demo use synaptic to install libstdc++ and you're good to go.