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CAM Studio Tabs
I'm just re-visiting CAM studio after not getting very far the first time, a few months ago so my knowledge is limited but when using other CAM software I have been able to add holding tabs to a part that is to be cut on a CNC router.
I can't seem to find this option in the UI so what is the best way to approach this?
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Same question here. We need tabs for parts we make on our CNC router. Vectric Cut2D is what we have been using and it can do tabs very easily on our profile toolpaths. We can configure their height and width and whether ramped or square. We can have them placed automatically or we can place them manually.
For CAM Studio to really be useful for us it really needs this capability.
After contacting Support a few weeks ago, who were very helpful as you'd expect from Onshape, they added a CAM Studio, (CAM Studio (1)) in this document that showed a work around for this problem.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9b566bc38dbf044ff9769ccd/w/da0e2374d2b2c2c7cb8ed44a/e/bc279d59389c043ebacea1bc
This is a pretty time-consuming "work around" for something that other platforms do seamlessly. I hope PTC has their best people working on this because this is now officially over the teacher's head. How am I going to get my students to figure this out?
Yes I see how the 2 parts shown by GWS50 could work for tabs. But sooooo much work! In Vectric Cut2D it is far simpler and easier.
GWS50 - thanks for sharing the work around. I think it's not yet ready for us to use until things like this are much simpler (ala Cut2D). Yes I would love being able to avoid generating a dxf and importing into Cut2D to generate the toolpaths for our router but doing so is very straight forward and so far I'm not seeing CAM studio being that 'cookie cutter'-ish. At least not for CNC router work. I do see how it could be a nice alternative for CNC milling instead of Fusion 360 or MasterCAM. We'll likely focus our efforts on using CAM studio for CNC milling instead of CNC routing for now.