For my example 1 : 10 degree V-Bit for Engraving 2 : 1,3 mm Drill for Cutting 3 : 0,8 mm Drill for drilling 0,8 mm holes. And set up the number of tools you are going to use. The view is from the Top thru the board to it have to be inverted.īut we will do that under the export process. Select the Calculate isolating toolpaths icon, select the number of extra contours the engraving bit shall run abound the tracks. Butterfly Capacitor Proof of Concept.Did you use this instructable in your classroom? Add a Teacher Note to share how you incorporated it into your lesson.
#Estlcam svg software
Skip to content Estlcam is the software I chose to prepare for milling my butterfly capacitor. Learn how your comment data is processed. In addition to showing the movements your CNC will make when actually cutting, you can also make sure that the tool head does not bump into your fixtures or holding clamps. Also, the red lines show the path followed by the tool before, between and after cuts. This simulation shows the path of the cutting tool in the material. To make sure that your CAM tool paths work, you then run a simulation of the G-code, as shown in the lower right insert. This holds the part in place until you separate it later. These are holding tabs - places where you prevent the tool from cutting all the way through. You will also see some small gaps in the yellow paths. These tool paths are shown in yellow above. The second operation was a helical hole in the end holes of the stator and center hole of the rotor plates. The first was a profile cut along the outside of the plate perimeters. In my case, there were two types of operations. Then you apply the tool using a specific operation to the contours of the drawing. You also indicate the speed the tool will rotate, how fast you want to feed the tool across the surface to be cut, how deep you want each pass to cut, and so on. With Estlcam, you set up the tool that you want to use. We can use a Helical path and start from 6.Estlcam is the software I chose to prepare for milling my butterfly capacitor.Īfter using a CAD program to design the stator and rotor plates for my capacitor, it was time to generate the G-code for my CNC machine. This new pocket will be the depth at which we start the rest of the cuts 6. So we use an inside pocket pass with.Ĭurrent tool path shown in red. This lets us come back round for a second pass and only have to mill of. For the roughing we can start at 1.įor the roughing pass we will leave an allowance of 0. The next cut will be a pocket taking the whole surface down in 2 steps, a rough and finishing pass. Make sure to set the tool path depth and machining order starting at one and increment by at least one. For the cut I select Insidepocketand selected the outer most path, shown in red. If you had a nice flat piece of material you can make it easier and just start at the work surface.
The first cutting step will be the basic surfacing of the wood to make sure the top is nice and flush. Just select Zero, Point, and Click where you want the new Zero. The tool will be starting off to the left of the actual piece of wood touching the bed so the first step is to move the zero point over about half an inch, to approximate where the tool will start. This file has all the part paths on it but not the depth of cut so we will work though this on step at a time. The tool paths start with importing the DXF file in mm. This will allow me to easily surface the uneven wood and not have to estimate where the origin should be. I will use the bed as the start position and tell ESTLCAM the work surface is slightly higher than measured on the thickest part of the wood.
#Estlcam svg manual
The following manual paths took 18 minutes to cut and look fantastic! So I can show some different techniques in this walk though I am using piece of Brazilian Ipe that has an uneven top surface, so no reliable Z origin. The automatically generated STL paths took 50 minutes to cut and did not pick up the small 4mm hole. You should have a firm grasp on the basics before trying this. This is an intermediate walk through on 2.