The obviuous benefit with this arrangement over a freestanding CAM program are you get far better user experience and a much more efficient workflow. The benefit, of course, is all your programming happens inside Rhino, while you’re interacting with your design. As mentioned before, RhinoCAM is in the form of a plugin for Rhino. I use Rhino3D to create my designs and then program my CNCs in RhinoCAM from Mecsoft.
Just as you’ve chosen Rhino to be your favorite design software, you need to make a simular choice in CAM software.
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Good CAM software is really is worth the cost in terms of its features, convenience, and speed. Cheap or free, might be enough, but it might be costing you more than you think. And, with different choices come tradeoffs. When it comes to choosing CAM software, you have a lot of choices. You create your drawings in Rhino, then you have to program your CNC with CAM software. The basic answer is that what you’re asking for is actually a two-step process. But if you only put the milling files on there I think it should be safe? Or? I’m actually not sure which is the safest as I assume viruses might still spread over dropbox. We actually switched to dropbox to prevent people coming in with their virussticks and contaminating the milling pc, which happened before. Mill something on the machine, check the tolerance while the piece is on the machine, adjust the tolerance in grasshopper, rerun the same updated file from dropbox that is being streamed from grasshopper.
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I create the file with the machine code using rhino/grasshopper and that file is being streamed over dropbox to the milling computer and opened using the software that runs the machine. I don’t do sending code straight to the machine either.
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Regarding sending Gcode directly (and there are people here who are far more expert than me) my opinion is that you should not have your CAD PC connected to the PC that runs your motion controller software. We went to a lot of trouble to turn off everything in the CNC’s PC that could try to do updates or connect to any networks, so it remains as stable as possible. My CNC’s PC is not connected to the internet or to any network and I literally carry the Gcode cut files from my CAD PC over to my CNC PC on a thumb drive. The latter should be completely isolated, so that you have less chance of things like bugs, updates, viruses etc from interrupting any processing or data flow, and stuffing up your cut files while they’re running. It’s a great way to go as you can see, edit, select your Rhino curves in the native program which I find MUCH easier than playing with the model in other programs such as Vectric or Mastercam. So what are you waiting for? Let's buckle up and go for a ride on the Rhino.I play around with a CNC router doing hobby stuff, model aircraft moulds mostly, and use Rhinocam 5 and I’ve used Madcam and Rhinocam. You'll be surprised how cool and easy this is to do. Once a surface is built, we can still tweak the form with point editing. We can build from scratch using our own curves, or even pull curves from surfaces already made. We then cover the basics of organic modeling. You'll learn in one hour what took me years to figure out. This course is the kind of training I wish I had when I first learned Rhino. I'm an architect, product designer and entrepreneur who has used Rhino for over 20 years. I've been teaching Rhino to college design students since 2002. I've used these techniques successfully in my design consultancy and in the classroom. These strategies will help you be a better designer and 3D modeler. These help you make complicated forms from just a few much simpler forms, like a potato chip. What's equally important is the surface strategies I have developed and perfected. They make forms easier to build and easier to change.
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