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Members Projects / Re: positional 4th Axis

« on: November 15, 2025, 12:36:27 pm »

"I would like to leave it in the activated position, brake on, powered off, so will make a friction clamp that can be slid along the mounting post and lock it."
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Be careful of that!  I don't know the alloys or geometries of your brake, but brakes and clutches will often rust-mark their mating surfaces if left engaged for long periods of time without use.  Such a mark can make for VERY rough starts and stops.

Like I said, I don't know the character of your brake, but I'd evaluate it for that potential if I were doing it.

Lloyd

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Tool Paths generated from other Polylines

« on: October 23, 2025, 20:05:58 pm »

Further, if the symmetry of your hole improves with lower feeds and speeds, it most certainly is not CamBam or the resultant g-code causing the error.  The toolpaths are correct.  Rather, it is play in an axis or over-stepping at rate.  You need to fix the problem with your machine.

LS

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: SUPER SLOW refresh times on the CB site

« on: October 16, 2025, 20:42:10 pm »

It's been fast for me, ever since it came back up from stone-dead yesterday.



Lloyd

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: New polyline

« on: October 08, 2025, 16:57:55 pm »

Any operation to an existing feature that results in a new feature creates that new feature in the existing feature's layer.

That's not a deficiency in the software.  You don't want 'afterthought operations' just landing in some unrelated layer.  If they belong there, move them.  It's as simple as click and drag.  It's not any 'work' to do.  OR, if you wish to create separate features for an item, move a copy of the original feature to a new layer.

Lloyd

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Scripts and Plugin Help / Re: I have a problem with the script

« on: September 30, 2025, 18:32:43 pm »

VBS scripts still work on Win10, so long as wscript.exe and cscript.exe are in the appropriate system directories.

I haven't confirmed that CB can invoke them, but I believe it can.

Lloyd

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Ball Mill Advice

« on: September 29, 2025, 23:27:28 pm »

You almost caught me by surprise.  I 'wrote the book' (actually and 'literally') on ball milling in amateur pyrotechnics.  When you wrote 'ball mill advice', the old stuff rushed back, until I realized you meant 'ball-end mill'.  (In that parlance, a 'Ball Mill' is a device for finely grinding chemicals, using a rotating drum full of hard grinding balls with the chemical among them. <grin>)

We can't help much without seeing some images of the cuts -- how they should be, how they turn out wrong, and copies of the geometries and MOps creating them.

I've never had difficulties getting a ball-end mill to conform to a 3D surface, so I can't picture what your problem is.

Lloyd

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Scripts and Plugin Help / Re: I have a problem with the script

« on: September 29, 2025, 10:58:03 am »

Bogus,
It's of little use to pose such a question without some detail.  You can attach scripts and CB file examples via the 'attachments' button below the posting frame.

Also, some descriptions of what it is, what it does, what language it's written in, and how you're invoking it will all be useful.

We'd love to help but cannot, with the information you supplied.

Lloyd

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Square Profile - isn't !!

« on: September 28, 2025, 12:27:38 pm »

JG, I'm confused.  I thought you said that the CV issue 'was the solution'.  Do I understand, now, that it did not fix it?

Lloyd

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Square Profile - isn't !!

« on: September 27, 2025, 15:36:00 pm »

It also might be because the actual tool diameter is different than that specified in the MOp.

In order to cut a square corner, CB must plan a curved path with the tool's surface being the 'pivot point' of the curve.  If the tool diameter doesn't match the MOp, you'll get that.

Lloyd

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Cleaning up an engraving cut

« on: September 27, 2025, 00:31:11 am »

I wouldn't blame the cutter.  If you're getting marks on the sidewalls of an engraved line, the fault lies in X/Y accuracy (or 'play') in the machine's positioning.

The only ways you can solve that are to either fix the positioning errors or do (as you say) a pocket MOp at full depth inside the line after engraving.

Lloyd

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Scripts and Plugins / Re: Bug-Ins

« on: September 25, 2025, 23:09:18 pm »

Lacking 'support', an ideal world would include having access to the source code.  Then, bugs could be corrected, rather than just 'worked around'.  The fact that sales continue without any support of any kind is kind-of illicit.

Lloyd

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Scripts and Plugins / Re: Bug-Ins

« on: September 25, 2025, 19:25:10 pm »

But, Fly, if the machining MOp is a menu item, then it could (conceivably) be replaced with a plugin that does it correctly.

I think it would be a monumental programming job to replicate an entire MOp function, but not impossible.

Lloyd

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Scripts and Plugins / Re: Bug-Ins

« on: September 25, 2025, 18:15:45 pm »

There's your answer, Bob!  At least any menu function can be fixed with a plugin.  I don't know about 'innate' functions.

Thanks, David!

Lloyd

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Scripts and Plugins / Re: Bug-Ins

« on: September 25, 2025, 10:49:33 am »

 Bob, I suppose - in a way - that they already do.  For instance, a 'missing feature' in a piece of software for which it's obvious the feature should be there can be considered a bug.  It's something that should work, but doesn't... not much different than omitting a line of code in a routine.  A plugin that transparently adds that feature fixes it.  <shrug>

I'll bet that plugins could also supplant existing functions -- actually overwrite their menu presences, so that the plugin repaired a problem in the original function.  I've never tried, but if a menu item can be added, then it's reasonable to believe that an existing one can be replaced or have its links changed.

Lloyd

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Waterline Finish with Bull Nose - Radius Allowance

« on: September 18, 2025, 20:52:58 pm »

Perhaps 'depth increment'?

A ball-end mill will make a much-nicer curved 3D profile than and end mill.  The depth increment controls how heavily 'ribbed' the surface will be.

Lloyd