Please,
Does anyone know what software we would need to get 2D geometry from SolidWorks to our Sieb & Meyer 35.00 controller on a Lenz PT415 drilling machine? We have tried all sorts over the years but have never had much joy; never had the time to fuss about writing post processors or to massage output from existing ones to correct end of block markers or shift/rotate geometry to make it land in the drilling area. I can't help thinking that in this day and age of sophistication and simplicity, there must be a fairly straightforward graphical CAM package that would be up to the job of taking the SW drawing and letting the drill operator add break-outs, step and repeats and tool selections etc. Does anyone know of such a package?
I don't think getting an Excellon controller for the drill is an option as the operator prefers Sieb & Meyer for manual jobs.
Thanks for your help and fingers crossed for this time! I can't wait to see our old drill milling out all those fanciful shapes in sheets of perspex and brass at the click of a few buttons instead of the poor operator spending hours and hours typing in router paths.
I must be missing something in either your controller or machine becaue I do that every day.
I take a flattened sheet metal part, kick out a dwg file with the orientatioon I want, import to my cam, move to where I want the azis zero's to be, kick the g-code out, load into machine and cut, 15 minutes max.
Takes a few more steps for milling a part but the mill takes a lot longer to setup.
Postprocessor is the most important part, Solidcam works inside Solidworks like an addin, talk to them about a postprocessor. Would think if they did not have one a printed copy of a program with all features in it would get you one that would be very close.