Hello, I have been referred to Lightburn by Sheetcam. I was in the middle of trying to use Sheetcam’s “Scanything” software on our CNC Machine, but we have an ethernet connection and its not supported by the Scanything software. Hence, they referred me to Lightburn. Here was there reply…
“Lightburn has very good camera interface, it also traces any object or pattern on the CNC table bed. Its very accurate. It works on a completely different concept than Scanything. Lightburn does not need CNC motion, you don’t need it connected to your controller, only to a camera which ‘sees’ the work area from directly overhead.”
What we are trying to do..
We have a CNC Machine in our wood shop that is a EZ Router Machine, we are only cutting pieces out of 3/4" Plywood. Our machine uses VCarve Pro software and Mach 3 which is in GCODE. We have thousands of chip board templates that the factory uses to trace on the plywood and then they cut it out by hand. We are looking for a software that can trace this outline and automatically make it a tool path and convert to a DXF file, that we can then send to Mach 3 and cut it out. We are doing this to save time, manually drawing all of the templates in VCarve Pro would take an extended amount of time. We are new to the CNC machine and software, I started learning it about a week ago.
Any reply or help in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!!
It sounds like you plan on using Lightburn to run the CNC milling machine. Wrong product. You need to be looking at MillMage, their very new product. Looks like Lightburn, works like a charm.
If you have an image of the template, then you can Import, Trace, Adjust the size, and Export a DXF file in about 10 seconds. Does this sound like something you can use?
I think MillMage can give you the Mach 3 GCode too, but not positive. Did I mention it is brand new?
I will take a look into Mill Mage. I think I can import photos of the templates into VCarve, trace and adjust the size. I would have to do some research on that, not familiar with doing any of that.. But, If I could do it in 10 seconds that would be fantastic.
That makes more sense than setting up LightBurn just for its camera view, because the video image correction tends to be extremely sensitive to the material position.
The photo must be taken directly above the center of the template with the camera parallel to the template to avoid distortion. A large known-size object in the photo will simplify rescaling.
If the tool paths must be accurate down to the millimeter, beware of consumer-grade cameras (notably phone cameras) with non-flat fields and slight barrel / pincushion distortion. Run photos of grids through the whole process to ensure the results have sufficient accuracy for your specs.
If the templates fit on Letter or Legal size paper sheets, a scanner will dramatically improve the results because the image will be rectilinear, properly scaled, and in a standard format.
For thousands of larger templates, buying a large-format scanner might make financial sense just to minimize the labor involved.
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Dassault système propose quand a eux le meilleur logiciel au monde,SOLIDWORKS,le plus complet aussi, utilisé même pour’la co’ception des fusées,des avions rafales etc mais plus cher. https://www.solidworks.com/fr/domain/manufacturing-production