RhinoCAM ToolBaker - Baking RhinoCAM Tool Catalog to Named Layers

inspired by mitch's toolbar for evaluating manufactuability based on available cnc-milling tools, we created an admittedly very special purpose definition.

the definition reads a .csv file (tool catalog) in which rhinocam stores the geometrical parameters of all tools.

geometry for flat mills and ball mills will be generated and can be baked to individual layers named after the tool's name.

maybe someone might find this useful.

feel free to use and modify.

any feedback welcome,

best, frank

Attachments:

GH_RhinoCAM-ToolBaker_01.ghx, 1010 KB

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Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on March 12, 2010 at 6:55am

whoah, this sounds very helpful! can't wait to test it out, thanks for sharing!

Permalink Reply by FrankS on March 12, 2010 at 8:00am

here is an updated definition.
i only changed the file path so that it references an example file on C:\

just download the .csv and place it on C:\ to see what is supposed to happen...

Attachments:

RhinoCam_ToolCatalog_Test_01.csv, 2 KB
GH_RhinoCAM-ToolBaker_02.ghx, 1010 KB

Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on March 16, 2010 at 10:09am

Hey Frank,

I just tried it with my Tool Definitions saved out of RhinoCAM.

See the attached file with my CSV file and also and image of where I am getting the error in the definition.

You must be Frank in the MecSoft forum asking for MOPS to be able to assign to layers. I have a definition that I use to do planking on planar curves for machining, I tried outputing from grasshopper to rhino, and I have been using colors to assign MOPS to (so I just have to select one then use select similar colors).

Any ideas on why I'm getting this error?
Thanks

Attachments:

Desktop.rar, 15 KB

Permalink Reply by FrankS on March 23, 2010 at 3:06pm

hey ryles,

sorry i was offline for a while. yep you are right, that's me in the mecsoft forum.
i have a problem downloading the "desktop.rar" file. "access denied" with two browsers. would you mind trying to upload it again. maybe as zip... let's see if that helps.

best frank

Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on March 24, 2010 at 7:03am

Weird, I just tried to download the link and got the same error.

Let's try it again.

Attachments:

tool library.zip, 1 KB

Permalink Reply by FrankS on March 26, 2010 at 2:43am

hey ryles,

i am not sure where you get the error, but can reproduce that the def is not working correctly with your catalog file.

1st: i would try to avoid spaces in file/path names.
2nd: using an additional string parameter between "file" and "vb_split" might help if you get the error in "vb_split".
3rd: there are some NULL values interpreted in "name" category. not sure why. first i thought because of slashes (/). but it turned out to be working in some cases with slashes in names...
4th: the def is set up to work with mm, so hard-coded values like the "end of flute groove" might have to be adjusted for proper proportions if using inches.

hope this helps,
best,
frank

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