CamBam has encountered a problem and needs to close?????

[twocik]

Hi there,
I'm having problems with the program closing as soon as I open it.  I click the shortcut Icon on my desktop. The program acts like it's about to open, and I see the main CamBam screen and then a message pops up and saying 

"CamBam has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

and that's it, it closes.   I then click the shortcut again and the program runs fine, well except for my next problem.


Anyone having this problem?






Now my second problem I'm trying to connect 4 arcs and 4 lines, making a rounded edge square.  After preparing the work piece

- Center
- apply Transformations 
- Convert to Polylines
- then Join
 
the square is not a whole.  I'm left with everything (3 lines, 4 arcs) connected except the top line of the square.  Any idea why I'm having this problem or am I missing something?


Thank you

Chris

[twocik]

As for the Joining problem, I figured it out.  If you're having the same problem, here's what I did


Click in the lower left window under Misc and change the false to true.


Misc
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- Closed  -   False

[10bulls]

Hello twocik,

This does sound odd.  My first thought is that it is the plugin library version problem.
Have you tried uninstalling all CamBam instances, deleting the CamBam folder then reinstalling?
One other thing to try is to remove any files from the plugins folder and see if that helps.  Good luck!

Regarding the joining.  Joining the 4 lines and arcs should work, but it will only join endpoints that are within the distance set in tools->options, general tolerance.
Try changing this to say 0.01, then join polylines.
Remember to change it back again as usually smaller tolerances are better.

Marking the polyline closed works as it basically joins the last point to the first.
But the 'unjoined' line will still be in the drawing and should be deleted.

Thanks for feedback twocik and I hopefully we'll get you up and running soon.

Andy

[twocik]

Hi Andy and thank you for the fast response!

The joining worked by lowering the tolerance, but I'm now having a problem with the tool path.   When I generate a tool path for my first inside square, after setting my DepthIncreme to .07 (picture attached),  I'm not seeing the blue lines showing me each pass (if that makes any sense).

 I'm not seeing preference window or anything like that, do I need to set anything up with the software before using it?


Here a few pics

[twocik]

**** SORRY I WAS TRYING TO MODIFY MY MESSAGE ABOVE, I ADDED A FEW THINGS, IT'S TELLING ME I CAN'T MODIFY.  SO I'M POSTING THE MODIFIED VERSION***




Hi Andy and thank you for the fast response!

The joining worked by lowering the tolerance, but I'm now having a problem with the tool path.   When I generate a tool path for my first inside square, after setting my DepthIncreme to .07 (picture attached),  I'm not seeing the blue lines showing me each pass (if that makes any sense).  I'm also getting a green color on my arcs in my square, not blue.  I'm using a 1/8 .0125 end mill for my tool diameter and it should be showing me a blue square/squares on the inside of my work piece as my tool path, right?   

 I'm not seeing preference window or anything like that, do I need to set anything up with the software before using it?


Here a few pics

[twocik]

 

[10bulls]

It's a bit hard trying to see exactly whats going on with the geometry from a screencapture, but it seems the toolpath is doing as it should.

You seem to have a rectangle that is above the z plane?  The profile mop is set to DepthRelativeTo = Absolute
(the default).  This means the toolpath will begin at Z=StockSurface (0) and go to -0.5.
On your rotated view, this seems to be the case. 

The different colours (blue lines and green arc segments) are to differentiate how they are translated into gcode.
These colours are hard coded in at the moment, but the current development release has these configurable.

You shouldn't need to set any preferences up.  The toolpaths are calculated from the geometry and the machine operation parameters.
The toolpaths are only generated when the Machining->Generate toolpath option is selected (or CTRL+T )

I notice this is the Beta 0.7 version.  Are you still having problems with the new version 0.8?

Looks an interesting item!  I hope we can get CamBam to work for you.

[twocik]

Here are a few rendered pictures of my work piece I'm trying to make.  In my post above, the third picture down (CamBam picture).  You can see that the tool path is running right along the edge of my work piece, that's being cut. I'm using a round 1/8 end mill for my cutter and if it runs along that path, I'll come up short by a few thousands (or somewhere around there).   What I'm getting at is my tool path (blue lines) should be much more square and on the inside of my square/work piece, not running along the same line.    A friend of mine is working on the same piece and on his version it shows what I'm talking about (picture included).  I've upgraded to the new version, thank you very much for your time and advice!       





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Friends Version of work piece (Cambam)

[10bulls]

Hello again,

So is your friends CamBam drawing doing as you expect?

One thing i noticed is that in your profile, you have inside/outside set to Outside, your friend is doing an Inside profile.

One other thing to check is the drawing units.  In the 0.7 version this was drawing scale (1=mm,25.4=inches),
in the new version there is a units selection on the toolbar.  I guess that inner rectangle is around 35mm.
Can you select that inner rectangle then do 'Get Object Extremas'.  This will tell you the dimensions of that bit
(I'd expect it to be ~ 1.4 width if you are working in inches) ?

Feel free to upload any .cb files.  It's a lot easier to see what's going on in a drawing.
PM me if you don't want to upload to the public forum.

Good Luck!

[twocik]

Hi Andy,
I found my problem, I was in metric mode on my Cad export, not Inches.  I'd like to say great job on the new version 8, everything looks really good!!   I'd also like to thank you for your help!   I'll talk to you soon.

Chris