- Status Assigned
- Percent Complete
- Task Type Feature Request
- Category QCAD/CAM
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Assigned To
Andrew - Operating System All
- Severity Low
- Priority Very Low
- Reported Version 3.22.1
- Due in Version Undecided
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Due Date
Undecided
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Attached to Project: QCAD Bugtracker
Opened by H. Stiekema - 13.06.2019
Last edited by Andrew - 13.06.2019
Opened by H. Stiekema - 13.06.2019
Last edited by Andrew - 13.06.2019
FS#1901 - CAM Traverse Toolpath
Hallo Andrew,
Still busy on the never ending G-code story. Urgently needed the very common Traverse Toolpath.
Example added as pdf.
Greetings
BUG_QCAD_20190612.pdf
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Just a friendly / honest assessment: this is unlikely to be implemented anytime soon from our side.
I'd suggest to implement this in your post processor as a toolpath for a point entity (perhaps on a special layer). Parameters could be attached to the point entity as custom properties.
Hallo Andrew,
I had already figured out a work around for myself, for the issue of not being able to specify the Toolpath's Initial Startpoint -coordinate. (See the attachment).
My proposal not only solves that issue, it also makes CAD/CAMming more easy, logical and consistent, and it prepares QCAD/CAM for milling and turning. As a bonus it also adds G-code-controller synchronisation, to avoid tool collisions. To me it seems pretty odd not implementing the first and most basic toolpath used by every CAM/CNC-operator. Why???
As for programming a toolpath in the post processor myself; I do need the example of an already functional toolpath for figuring out how to achieve such a thing.