Rhino CAM

Our pre dawn of existance CAM application is about 50% good - it is very unforgving on even the most well built CAD models.

Anyway - I delved into Rhino CAM - a plug in for Rhino 4 and offer a free demo on their webiste. I fed it a file that has been causing Excalibur to stall for around 33 hours only to let us down again and again and crash. To my suprise it took about 30 seconds for Rhino CAM to spit out a tool path - i'll bee damned.

Unfortuantely without the right post processor its unusabable on our machine. Maybe I can faf with the Post output settings but who wants to do that on a sunny day?

Anyway, have a couple of images to feast your eyes on!



Horizonal roughing - tool path generated very quickly - but i'm sure there must be a way to select a more material friendly region...



Horizontal finishing if I remember correctly. pretty fine stepover of only 10% of tool - all the stages are pretty strait forward.



And lastly, the output G code.