[Jeff Vickers]

Can anyone help with drainer grooves (5 straight)on Alphacam. My guy has gone sick and I cannot get them
working.

[Seth Emery]

Jeff,

Sorry, we don’t use Alphacam. Do you have AutoCAD also? I may be able to guide you through making the lines have a slope in AutoCAD. Then you could import them into AlphaCAM and see if you could get that to work. If you think this would work, give me a call 717-917-3259. Sorry to hear you’re in a bind

Have a nice day,
Seth

[Jeff Vickers]

Hi Seth,
Many thanks for your reply. We are based in the UK but we will call you asap.
Best regards,
Jeff

[Jeff Vickers]

Seth, you are a top man, we got it working thanks to you. Sorry if we delayed your snow clearing.
I owe you a beer.
Cheers,
Jeff

[Andy Graves]

Hello Jeff,

I was at the show and just got back. For the future, I work with AlphaCAM so if you have any questions, just let me know.

Seth is always a big help and probably know more about CAD than I ever will so you were in good hands.

Post a picture of the drainboard if you get a chance.

[Seth Emery]

Thanks , Jeff and Andy, for the compliments. I’ve learned a lot from everyone here. I’m glad to hear things worked out with the drainboard. No, Jeff, you didn’t delay my shoveling – I needed a break. This stuff has been hard to keep up with, and now there is no use shoveling because the winds have picked up.

[Jeff Vickers]

Hi Andy/Seth,

Hot off the CNC last night our first effort at straight, curved and curly, (just because we could)

[Andy Graves]

Jeff,

What version of AlphaCAM are you using?

[Jeff Vickers]

Andy,
we are using v5.
Did you get the pic I PMd to you?

[Andy Graves]

No sir, I didn’t get any picture. Can you resend to either the PM or olivemill at gmail.com

Thanks

[Jeff Vickers]

Hi Andy, I think we’ve cracked it!

[Andy Graves]

How did you do it? I can do a straight line, but when I do a curve it creates to many points along the line to define. Real pain.

I got your picture, can I post it under one of your posts?

[Jeff Vickers]

Hi andy,

Please post the picture.

Jeff

[Seth Emery]

Jeff,

I’m glad to hear that you have been experimenting with different shapes. Send me some pics if you get a chance. seth77@ptd.net

Andy,

We were having trouble with “stepping” issues when we were doing curved “racetrack” drainboards, but that was taken care of when we starting drawing multi-segmented (about 400 little lines in a half-“circle”) polygons instead of arcs. Somewhere between the CAM software and the CNC controller, things had not been working out in the program when the machine was trying to rout a radius moving in the x, y, & z axes simultaneously.

Have a good one,
Seth

[John Christensen]

What?  My head hurts.  Give me a router and a template and leave the aspirin in the drawer.

Johnny C

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