August 24th, 2006
The Caducopia Cutter Profiler v0.1 060824 has been released.
The CADucopia Cutter Profiler is a RhinoScript that displays the profile of a cutter (defined in Deskproto’s .ctr cutter format) as a polycurve in Rhino (DeskProto’s .ctr format is used with the kind permission of Delft Spline Systems).
This profile can then be used in conjunction with the CADucopia Offset Calculator which calculates a number, an offset, that can be used to create a 2D contour curve to cut parts out of flat sheet, clean up walls and contours, etc. Cutter profiles are also useful in the close examination of toolpaths displayed by the CADucopia Toolpath Viewer.
Case studies of how the CADucopia products work together will be offered in coming weeks.
We look forward to your feedback. contact: info@caducopia.com
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July 26th, 2006
Caducopia Offset Calculator v0.1 060725 released.
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July 13th, 2006
The CADucopia Offset Calculator is a RhinoScript that calculates a radial offset that can then be used to create a 2D contour curve to clean up walls and contours of your part; cut parts out of flat sheet; etc. It does this from an arbitrary cutter profile and axial depth of cut.
Pictured is the right half of the tip of a 0.005 inch / 15 degree included angle / flat tipped conical cutter. Calculated is the offset for an 0.08 inch depth of cut using this cutter.
The CADucopia Offset Calculator v0.1 is coming soon. Stay tuned!
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May 19th, 2006
Caducopia Toolpath Viewer v0.2 060519 released.
A minor bug fix (X,Y,Z initialization) and minor improvement (improved input testing to ignore unsupported commands like G43) are included in this release.
If you have tried the CADucopia Toolpath Viewer we would like to hear from you. Reply to this post (please note replies are moderated so they may not appear immediately) or email: feedback@caducopia.com. Thank you.
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May 9th, 2006
The CADucopia Toolpath Viewer v0.2 is available for download.
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April 28th, 2006
Welcome to CADucopia!
We hope to bring you items of interest related to scripting and CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design / Manufacture) applications because this is our business (see About).
The CADucopia toolpath viewer will be offered shortly as a free download. The CADucopia Toolpath Viewer is a RhinoScript that displays a XYZ G-Code toolpath in Rhino as polylines. G0, G1 and M30 and X, Y, Z are used for generating the polylines. Other G and M codes and special characters (with the exception of a comment character) are ignored.
To obtain your copy of the CADucopia Toolpath Viewer, visit the DeskProto website (www.deskproto.com). Delft Spline Systems, the software publisher of DeskProto, has kindly offered to host the download.
Regards,
Jim
Caducopia, LLC
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