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A good app for routing parts for sign cabinets?
Cris_Bowers
Member Posts: 281 PRO
My company currently uses EnRoute (https://www.thinksai.com/products/enroute) for nesting parts and creating router programs. 90% of our work is simple 2D flat cut profiles with drilled/routed holes. Occasionally we will work with thicker material, up to 2" that might require pockets or shoulder cuts, and very rarely complex surfacing. Are any of the partnered apps able to check all those boxes?
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michael3424 Member Posts: 687 ✭✭✭✭Cris_Bowers said:owen_sparks said:VisualCAMc?Owen S.
https://mecsoft.com/compare-products/
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joe_dunne Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 198Cris_Bowers said:My company currently uses EnRoute (https://www.thinksai.com/products/enroute) for nesting parts and creating router programs. 90% of our work is simple 2D flat cut profiles with drilled/routed holes. Occasionally we will work with thicker material, up to 2" that might require pockets or shoulder cuts, and very rarely complex surfacing. Are any of the partnered apps able to check all those boxes?
As of today the "nesting" can be handled with a basic feature....
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1a6c3c8eb3badcf72461a02b/v/e14dfc4b9eb6610cfbae03b3/e/81ad3ffdfc14fb05d1d8c68c
If that nesting functionality is sufficient, then VisualCAMc can handily generate the gcode to cut these shapes. I do anticipate more streamlined workflow on this type of job as time goes on, inside VisualCAMc. Its on their roadmap.
Joe
Joe Dunne / Onshape, Inc.5
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HWM-Water Ltd
https://mecsoft.com/compare-products/
As of today the "nesting" can be handled with a basic feature....
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1a6c3c8eb3badcf72461a02b/v/e14dfc4b9eb6610cfbae03b3/e/81ad3ffdfc14fb05d1d8c68c
If that nesting functionality is sufficient, then VisualCAMc can handily generate the gcode to cut these shapes. I do anticipate more streamlined workflow on this type of job as time goes on, inside VisualCAMc. Its on their roadmap.
Joe
Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign
No time for a full response right now, but think "in context"
Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign
I think what Ilya is getting at is that you could insert all of your flat pattens into an assembly, then start a new in-context part studio of that assembly, copy-in-place all of the flat patterns, and then use the layout feature on those.
I do anticipate other partners to offer more traditional nesting solution as Integrated Cloud Apps. I have talked to a few companies that have their own nesting code to do this. There is nothing technical standing in their way. They are all just weighing the cost/benefit of building their nesting app into Onshape. So the more oportunity they see the faster they will build an Onshape app.
I am happy to make introductions to anybody that wants to talk to a company, not yet a partner, but "thinking about it"
Joe
My company in Australia is currently looking for an alternative to our woodwork CAD/CAM calamity and we're getting a demonstration from SigmaNEST on Wednesday. If I'm going to be honest, the main reason I got in touch with them is to find out if anything I export from onshape can be used in their software. I'm hopefull about the solidworks export. I've trialed and intensely studied many alternative CAD. Nothing quiet compares to onshape
1. Is there any particular method you could recommend to make onshape "talk" to SigmNEST? Or any particular "meta Data" that could potentially be tied to solid models via script upon export?
2. Also should I mention our interest and investment in onshape? perhaps drop a name or two to stir their interest in the platform?