Folks
I just found a program called SimplyCam by mr-soft (http://www.mr-soft.net/en/scam.html) that looks like it would be a good low cost (~$50 US) software solution for driving my shopbot. Does anyone have any experience with usign SimplyCam ?
I've done some quick experimenting and it looks like it can import artwork, do bitmap tracing, and do toolpath generation in g-code. I've been able to export the g-code (.nc) files into the shopbot control program using File->File Conversion. So far I've been able to get some simple patterns to drive the shopbot .. but I'm having a little trouble debuging it.. for example.. the Z coordinates seem to be indexing higher as the artwork goes left to right.
SimplyCam has some configuration profiles for many other CNC tool types.. but not for shopbot.. does anyone have a prolie they've developed for Shopbot ? Any insights on SimplyCam would be welcome.. it seems like a great solution for the price... if it can be made to work. Many Thanks !
-jc