OK, I think the contour follow strategy has bugs, but that is warned about.
I also had assumed that the contour follow would use 'important' heights for the contours, but it is evenly spaced based on the maximum cut depth. See this feature request: https://sourceforge.net/p/pycam/feature-requests/15/
I've got good results by doing a rough slice and then using the surface strategy in both x & y.
I can't see the point in the contour follow given that to get accurate Z I would have to set the z increment very low, and then this strategy takes a lot longer to calculate than the surface strategy.
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Hi there. I'm just starting to use pycam's 3d functionality - used to using it for 2.5d stuff for a while now.
I'm having problems with a simple model with the contour follow and contour polygon strategies.
I'm using 0.5.1 on ubuntu 12.
The model, and screen shots are all here: https://github.com/mattvenn/cad/tree/master/openscad/cast
I can get contour follow to work if I rotate once in the z axis.
Any help would be great,
thanks
Matt
OK, I think the contour follow strategy has bugs, but that is warned about.
I also had assumed that the contour follow would use 'important' heights for the contours, but it is evenly spaced based on the maximum cut depth. See this feature request: https://sourceforge.net/p/pycam/feature-requests/15/
I've got good results by doing a rough slice and then using the surface strategy in both x & y.
I can't see the point in the contour follow given that to get accurate Z I would have to set the z increment very low, and then this strategy takes a lot longer to calculate than the surface strategy.