I am looking for a add in, it shoud make a cnc file for our laser cutter. today I make a 3d part 'sheet metal' take it to drawing and make a 2d flatpatten export dxf import to a program and there I make a cnc file
It's to much job Sorry about my english /Anders C
See the Solution Partners portion of the SW website. Check with your VAR.
Anders Carlss> I am looking for a add in,
Anders,
I don't think there is an integrated product that will do what you need.
Camworks and SolidCam are the only gold level CAM products, and they don't have a module for handling the special needs of laser (like auto nesting). In fact, of the seven certified CAM systems, only Mastercam has a special module for this work.
You may be able to make one of these work, it's just X,Y code, but you'll probably spend any time you save doing other things, manual nesting, manual editing, etc.
Regards
Mark
Hvilken laserskærer har du - Amada har pt. en add-in
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Well, aside from doing this daily with Solidworks, I am also occasionally stuck doing this from legacy acad stuff... trust me, spending an hour per part cleaning up crap .DWG files is too much work. At least SWX geometry is clean.
Secondly, Sheet metal CAM apps are for the most part 2D apps, and may well run on lower-end boxes. I already tried nesting multiple flat patterns on "sheets", and a dozen sheets with 50 or so flat patterns on it will slow any box down faster than loading an assembly with the same amount of parts in it.
Thats my guess why I havent seen a plugin to do it, and why I abandoned my own start at a plugin to do the same...
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