Simple Task Got Me Stumped

[Burkhardt]

So that was not too bad. 120 lines of code and 2 hours.

I think that will do the job for now but I will email Paul anyway to see if he is interested.

If somebody wants to play with it, the program is HERE. The user interface is really primitive (80's style) but for such a simple task it should do the job. Let me know if this application would warrant more effort. For my purposes it is good enough as-is.

Test in 2x6 redwood with 15mm bevel radius. This took 11 minutes to machine @ 2.3 ips with a 1/4" ballnose bit after surfacing.

[scottp55]

Thanks G. !!
I'll check it out and see if "Idjits" can use it

[Burkhardt]

Thanks G. !!
I'll check it out and see if "Idjits" can use it

Never mind, please load from the same place again. Sure enough there was a bug

[scottp55]

Thanks G. Done.

[Ger21]

I haven't made use of it myself so not sure if it's the same thing but there is an option on the vector selector part of the toolpath to set the cut depth from imported vectors.

I played with this, and in it's current form, it's not really usable for something like this.
The Vector Selector only uses one depth for all the selected vectors, so the only way to get it to work is to put each vector on it's own layer, and create a separate toolpath for each vector.
It does work if you do this, but it's so tedious that I gave up after 2 minutes, but it did work.

[Ger21]

Stumbled across this Vectric Gadget that appears to do what you were originally looking for.

http://forum.vectric.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=21547