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As our resident guru on all things related to SketchUp, I (we) have a few things to run by you. All of it is related to preparing drawings for a CNC machine.
A couple of us are building CNC machines from kits by Inventables. They have a software package that allows for small items to fit their basic size machine. For those of us who use SketchUp with some regularity, it would be great if there were a path from an SU drawing to the gcode necessary to drive a CNC machine.
One path is upgrading to SU Pro so one can use the SVG export, then use a CAM program to generate the gcode. At $600, that's a pricey way to get what we need.
Another route I found was SketchUcam from Phatboyz. I did a single-face drawing, provided the appropriate input and got a gcode file, but there were other problems that caused me to have to delete SUcam. There were issues with it changing the appearance of drawing elements that were related to the handling of "Styles". I could work around that, but the bigger issue was irregular, but routine BugSplats that I didn't have before SUcam was installed. As promising as SUcam looked, I had to delete it from all of my PCs to have stable SU2015.
I guess the real question for you is: Can you help us? Is there a pathway from SU to gcode that we haven't found yet?
Thanks!
A couple of us are building CNC machines from kits by Inventables. They have a software package that allows for small items to fit their basic size machine. For those of us who use SketchUp with some regularity, it would be great if there were a path from an SU drawing to the gcode necessary to drive a CNC machine.
One path is upgrading to SU Pro so one can use the SVG export, then use a CAM program to generate the gcode. At $600, that's a pricey way to get what we need.
Another route I found was SketchUcam from Phatboyz. I did a single-face drawing, provided the appropriate input and got a gcode file, but there were other problems that caused me to have to delete SUcam. There were issues with it changing the appearance of drawing elements that were related to the handling of "Styles". I could work around that, but the bigger issue was irregular, but routine BugSplats that I didn't have before SUcam was installed. As promising as SUcam looked, I had to delete it from all of my PCs to have stable SU2015.
I guess the real question for you is: Can you help us? Is there a pathway from SU to gcode that we haven't found yet?
Thanks!