Reverse engineering, anyone ? GH lacking proper tools

[martinsiegrist]

Many things are possible. I don’t own a CNC machine or robot but I’ve done some toolpath simulation and exported curves and lines for machining mostly wheel-wells on downhill skateboards.

5 axis milling automation

interesting, below is a 3-axis simulation I’ve done in Grasshopper

Converting a STEP file to G-code for CNC milling 3D surfaces

G-code depends so much on machine and tools used so unless you have your own machine, you need a really good reason to dive into this. I did some tool path simulation to evaluate different cutters for 3 axis milled longboard wheel wells but it was only a simulation. [14_12_31_jet_jc-1_03] [14_12_31_jet_jc-1_01] [14_12_31_jet_jc-1_02]