woodturner
08-25-2010, 10:04 PM
Hello All,
I would appreciate some suggestions for creating one piece cabinet doors. I looked at the "Free Doors" program and it looks great (thanks and kudos to the guys that shared it) but I am looking for a different style RP door. I am not sure I can make it work.
I need to have a very efficient way of creating the tool paths or it's cheaper to buy the darn things. I am working with an alpha with two spindles. The door needs three or four bits. Can anyone suggest a starting point for something that would let me input the width and height and it calculate all the offsets and help me turn that into code without drawing it out. In other words, I can see using excel to do some repeatable math but where can I take it from there?
By the time I draw it in Acad, import it to Insignia and make, and save the paths, I could have bought the doors from someone that knows what they're doing. And by the way, does anybody know how the big guys in the door biz do what they do, and so quickly? Is custom software their success driving 5 axis routers (toolchangers are a given)? I cannot figure out some (most) of the square or near square corner profiles they routinely deliver.
In the case of a shopbot approach, I'll need to go from machining along a vector (three times)at two different Z heights and two different bits, to a small area clear (clean up four corners) with a third bit at yet another Z, to a profile cut to out the parts at another Z.
Thanks in advance for any reasonably priced suggestions.
I would appreciate some suggestions for creating one piece cabinet doors. I looked at the "Free Doors" program and it looks great (thanks and kudos to the guys that shared it) but I am looking for a different style RP door. I am not sure I can make it work.
I need to have a very efficient way of creating the tool paths or it's cheaper to buy the darn things. I am working with an alpha with two spindles. The door needs three or four bits. Can anyone suggest a starting point for something that would let me input the width and height and it calculate all the offsets and help me turn that into code without drawing it out. In other words, I can see using excel to do some repeatable math but where can I take it from there?
By the time I draw it in Acad, import it to Insignia and make, and save the paths, I could have bought the doors from someone that knows what they're doing. And by the way, does anybody know how the big guys in the door biz do what they do, and so quickly? Is custom software their success driving 5 axis routers (toolchangers are a given)? I cannot figure out some (most) of the square or near square corner profiles they routinely deliver.
In the case of a shopbot approach, I'll need to go from machining along a vector (three times)at two different Z heights and two different bits, to a small area clear (clean up four corners) with a third bit at yet another Z, to a profile cut to out the parts at another Z.
Thanks in advance for any reasonably priced suggestions.