See if you can apply a toolpath to it, and see if it turns green. Are you exporting from Inkscape as SVG? Also, keep in mind the line may blend in or nearly so with the Sheetcam grid, if you have the grid enabled. Just long enough to let the arc stabilize, and so you can get an idea of an "average" reading during the stable portion of the cut. Please don't post a question like: "Tell me everything I need to know Someone from the CandCNC crew will answer or maybe a grizzled veteran will beat us to it! Any help would be greatly appreciated. In this forum we cover each type of software package we sell or recommend and while we are not experts on every aspect of every package we will try to answer your questions. Now what do you do: Dirty little secret 2: The act of generating files to cut can be as big a challenge as building the table. It passes all of the tests and you have made some chips or cut some metal. Inkscape to Sheetcam You have your machine all setup and running. In my order of concept to design to manufacture is Inkscape Sheetcam Mach3 Usually with Inkscape I can get some pretty good results.
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By chance have you ever used in vinyl cutting programs? DWalls November 8,pm 4. Sell me on sheetcam Software.Īny pros or cons to the program? CandCNC Support ForumĬan I still design parts? DWalls November 8,pm 2.
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You can be precise with inkscape too, just takes a little creativity using guidelines and snap. As Dicky said F is a great program but it is way too much for plasma, Qcad is probably a better alternative if you are going to be cutting parts that need to be precise. If you try it you will be amazed how much simpler it is to work with. For tool path generation sheetcam is hard to beat, it just flat out works. I can export a file designed in inkscape, import it to sheetcam, run tool path, post it, load into mach 3, zero my machine and hit cycle start, faster than I can open fusion on a good computer.įusion is a good program, but for 2d, overkill. I started out using Fusion which in my opinion is a feature rich program, but for what I do, not necessary.
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There are some not so well known features that by reading the manual or watching videos you can figure out. In my limited and growing experience with sheetcam, I like the fact that it is NOT web based storage or cloud storage of your files. Sheetcam is only used for toolpathing you can nest parts too. There are allot of people on here that can help also once you decide which way you are going to go. Start off with this one and see what you think, I believe they have allot of good videos on their channel.
#Sheetcam youtube how to
To me sheetcam was easy to learn I looked at fusion but I already knew how to get the drawing in my vinyl program so I only had to learn sheetcam and there are allot of good videos on youtube.
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Inkscape, I have, but only as far as opening an image, tracing into a path and exporting it as a dxf. Spending time with it and watch the 2D Cam tutorialsfrom FUSION AS well.No on the vinyl cutting programs. You can import svg directly into FUSION AS well. Wouldn’t allow me to toolpath the three areas they were next to, deleted and all was fixed. Or I just wasn’t careful enough when I though I was finished the design. Was just 3 tiny straight lines I couldn’t see in INKSCAPE. Ĭaught three issues on a piece I cut today.
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I had problems with importing designs in dxf from INKSCAPE, pretty much got those resolved.įUSION HAS a free file add on extension you can install that will check you imported design sketch’s for open paths and errors called check sketch ands it gets added in the middle top tool bar. What’s nice is you can extrude your sketch, rotate it about a 3 D axis and send to customer for review and cut approval … Spend time with it & you learn the ins and outs
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Yes seems overly saturated with functionsīut it’s a full blown software to do it all!įor 2D profile cutting with the CROSSFIRE it’s over the top yea. Realized it’s because I have used other CAM CAD.