Re: The First No Bull**** Blog Devoted To Telling The Truth About Both CAD And CAM

On Mon, 12 May 2008 16:40:37 -0700 (PDT), Joe788 <joemama788@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>habitual malcontent.

And poseur:

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You never chain geometry in Gibbs or SmartCAM. It's not necessary.
] - Jon Banquer -  May 20, 2005

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Create the elements in any order, and sequence them later, using
modeling tools such as Chain.
] -SmartCAM Manual -

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I hope I provided some good info on Gibbs Machining Markers and the
FACT that Gibbs doesn't have chaining tools.
]-Jon Banquer-

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<bottlebob> wrote: 
>Now a quickie explanation about the Machining Markers.
>
>The blue arrow is the direction the tool will go 
>(you can choose backward >or forward movement), 
>you highlighted one of the three circles, they tell 
>the tool to either go on the outside of the geometry, the inside of 
>the geometry, OR centered on the geometry.  The white round marker is 
>where the toolpath starts, and the black round marker is where it 
>ends.  The square black & white markers are the particular section of 
>the geometry chosen to start on.  The red line it the toolpath, the 
>purple like is the geometry (it is purple, right?  I'm color blind and 
>it looks like dark blue to me) 

Can you show us how you "chained" that geometry in Gibbscam, Bob?
] - Jon Banquer- 
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For someone like Dr. Battleboob, GibbSCAM is the PERFECT 
system.
] -Jon Banquer- 


Jon did you even read Bob's post, the one you copied above? 

I can show you how the geometry in GibbsCAM is chained. Here you go, 
the program needs to know this as a minimum to chain: 

 1) profile start 
 2) profile end 
 3) direction 
 4) offset 

So lets look at machining markers and what Bottle Bob describes: 

 1) start: 
           "The white round marker is where the toolpath starts," 

 2) end: 
           "the black round marker is where it ends." 

 3) direction: 
           "blue arrow is the direction" 

 4) offset: 
           "they tell the tool to either go on the outside of the 
geometry, the inside of the geometry, OR centered on the geometry." 

>ROTFLMFAO 

Now if BB clicks on the blue arrow and reverses it he just reversed 
the chain direction. If BB clicks on the white box and drags it to 
another position he just edited the chains start point. 

>Love those Machining Markers! Great idea! 

You can call it "Chaining" (since that is the original widely accepted
term) or you can call it "Machining Markers", hell you can even 
call it "Santa Clause" if you want as long as it tells the CAM program
where the profile start, end, direction and offset is. All CAM 
programs have to know that information in order to calculate the 
offset tool path by any other name it's still "chaining". 
] -Tom-