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CNC routing prismatic. Help with 3D routing with a ball mill
hello, have a 500mm by 500mm router
have it running corel
hpgl >
sheetcam>
mach3so basically sheetcam is a 2.5d program, but wish to try and do actual 3d routing with a ball mill.
-so is there a graphics based g-code generating package
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Download Vectric 3d trial version, expensive to but very good, they also do a 2d version which can download 3d samples. The vinyl master program also has an engraver option on version 4
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Hi, Steve,
What kind of 3d work do you want to do? Do you want to do 3d relief engravings / lithophanes and that sort of thing?
There is some options if you want to do that sort of work. There is a free download – BMP2CNC or some such. Google it…. It can convert photographs to 3d reliefs.
I do a lot of that kind of work in my free time. Lots of fun, but not really commercially viable. But it does earn me some beer money 😀
I did these with USBCNC, but BMP2CNC is quite similar
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