Making Beaded Panel Doors

[handh]

Has anyone tried making a program to make beaded panel inserts. So that you could put in you panel width and have it calculate the toolpaths so that I would have to draw it in Artcam for every panel.

Does anyone have a sugestion to how I would go about making a program myself.

Maybe there is something like this that you have or you can steer me in the right direction.

Thanks,

[richards]

Jeff,
If you're familiar with C programming and spreadsheets, there's a bunch of source code available for the doors program that Bruce Clark and I wrote. By using the code as a basis, you could easily extend/modify things to do different things. Basically, the code covers retrieving data from a spreadsheet CSV file (comma delimited text file), creating SBP files, and writing commands to the SBP files. It's not hard to do, once you get the hang of the steps involved.

If you're interested send me an email and I'll try to help you get started.

-Mike
miker@xmission.com (mailto:miker@xmission.com)

[handh]

Thanks Mike you have mail.