Rhinocam 2012 for rhino 5 software#
Rhinocam 2012 for rhino 5 Pc#

And, with different choices come tradeoffs. When it comes to choosing CAM software, you have a lot of choices.

You create your drawings in Rhino, then you have to program your CNC with CAM software. The basic answer is that what youвЂ™re asking for is actually a two-step process. But if you only put the milling files on there I think it should be safe? Or? IвЂ™m actually not sure which is the safest as I assume viruses might still spread over dropbox. We actually switched to dropbox to prevent people coming in with their virussticks and contaminating the milling pc, which happened before. Mill something on the machine, check the tolerance while the piece is on the machine, adjust the tolerance in grasshopper, rerun the same updated file from dropbox that is being streamed from grasshopper.

Rhinocam 2012 for rhino 5 software#

I create the file with the machine code using rhino/grasshopper and that file is being streamed over dropbox to the milling computer and opened using the software that runs the machine. I donвЂ™t do sending code straight to the machine either.

Rhinocam 2012 for rhino 5 Pc#

Regarding sending Gcode directly (and there are people here who are far more expert than me) my opinion is that you should not have your CAD PC connected to the PC that runs your motion controller software. We went to a lot of trouble to turn off everything in the CNCвЂ™s PC that could try to do updates or connect to any networks, so it remains as stable as possible. My CNCвЂ™s PC is not connected to the internet or to any network and I literally carry the Gcode cut files from my CAD PC over to my CNC PC on a thumb drive. The latter should be completely isolated, so that you have less chance of things like bugs, updates, viruses etc from interrupting any processing or data flow, and stuffing up your cut files while theyвЂ™re running.

ItвЂ™s a great way to go as you can see, edit, select your Rhino curves in the native program which I find MUCH easier than playing with the model in other programs such as Vectric or Mastercam.

I play around with a CNC router doing hobby stuff, model aircraft moulds mostly, and use Rhinocam 5 and IвЂ™ve used Madcam and Rhinocam.