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orpheus wrote: Facemilling doesn't (Or didn't at the time I looked) work in a stepped manner - if the cut depth was greater than step depth, it did the first, then stopped.

It was designed like this, I think I will review it

orpheus wrote: Finishing passes - I wanted my finishing pass to be at the full depth, instead of at stepped depths

I will add the option in preferences, do not expect it this week

orpheus wrote: The rest of the changes are mostly the flow of the program, removing some menu items I'll not use, moving some things into new menus.

If you are talking about menu.xml and the subroutines available, make the changes you want and save it under menu-custom.xml, it will use it and will NOT be over-written

Regards
Fern

FernV wrote:

orpheus wrote: Facemilling doesn't (Or didn't at the time I looked) work in a stepped manner - if the cut depth was greater than step depth, it did the first, then stopped.

It was designed like this, I think I will review it

From reading the code, I thought that was the intention - honestly the situation as only occured once where I wanted to go deeper.

orpheus wrote: Finishing passes - I wanted my finishing pass to be at the full depth, instead of at stepped depths

I will add the option in preferences, do not expect it this week

If this could be an option in the tool-change.cfg, it'd be better, as sometimes I don't want to plunge the tool the full depth, for example, with long cutters, but short flute lengths. It's not time critical, so I won't be crying out for it any sooner!

orpheus wrote: The rest of the changes are mostly the flow of the program, removing some menu items I'll not use, moving some things into new menus.

If you are talking about menu.xml and the subroutines available, make the changes you want and save it under menu-custom.xml, it will use it and will NOT be over-written

I'll make a note of this - I had noticed it printing to console about not finding this file; should have looked further into that

THanks again, Fern

Philip

Regards
Fern

FernV wrote: George and Phillip, thanks for your suggestion and comments. I just added the option in tool tip angle. A quick work around could also have been to use the reamer as a mill but without drilling option.

That -0.050 is set in 'Workpiece', the 'Through' param that is used when you want to make sure it goes through the workpiece. If you want to go exactly to the bottom, use 'Bottom' as the option for 'Drill down to' or 'Cut down to'

I should upload to github later today with other significant improvements.

Phillip, have you made other improvements that you wish to see included in NativeCAM ?

Regards
Fern

The .050 I spoke of was not the "through" parameter at work, in all my test cases I had the depth set as "User" and set at .0001, still I was getting -.050 to -.060 depth of cut due to the calcs for tip angle and tool diameter.


None the less, I think this issue is well under control with Ferns coming changes.

Fern, I thank you so much !!! I have made some pretty complicated pieces with NativeCam.

George

I just updated github with the changes to tool-change.cfg, new icons, etc

read catalogs/customize and locale/translating

also, this is a transition to a deb package and the setup file is nondeb_setup.py

I am afraid I forgot to update README.MD

Regards
Fern

orpheus wrote: Finishing passes - I wanted my finishing pass to be at the full depth, instead of at stepped depths

If this could be an option in the tool-change.cfg, it'd be better, as sometimes I don't want to plunge the tool the full depth, for example, with long cutters, but short flute lengths. It's not time critical, so I won't be crying out for it any sooner!

We have the following options :

• in the tool-change
• in the shape finishing options

If in tool-change, it means that every finishing cut after be done with that option until you insert another tool-change to change the setting. If in the shape you select it for each one.

I am not sure what is best, maybe I would opt for the shape

What do you think ?

Fern

I'd agree, the most logical place for the option is in the finishing options - it probably makes the most sense.