artcam jewelsmith

[artcad]

Hi,I do my cad drawings in artcam jewel smith and I know that in this software the objects are not that smooth as in rhyno and matrix.
I do my stl repairs in magics from envisiontec and I know it needs a lot of repairing(few minutes),I don't have received the Solus yet and never tried
nettfab but does somebody have experience with this?Thanks
Berc

[mongerdesigns]

People always send me artcam meshes, and for some reason they always look like someone made them using a hacksaw. Doesn't look too good. I'm sure there should be a setting for making nice meshes on export.

[artcad]

I think that Artcam is a cad software specially for cnc milling,so it does not matter that the stl does not look smooth and yes there are ways to build
your model smoother but why should you,milling a model is different than growing one.
I agree when they send you a file where the model looks like its made with a hacksaw and you have to grow it well what you see is what you get ,right?
Berc

[krist hochburger]

Hi berc,

I use artcam too. I've never used netfab but I was told that 3D coat is the best program to clean up artcam stl's and repair.

I've gotten the best results by exporting out of artcam as a .obj (you have to hide your stones or they will be exported as a metal), into 3D coat which coverts the mesh to 'voxels' , do a few smoothing passes then back out as a .stl. This works quite well.

You are gonna love your solus! I'm excited for you.

[artcad]

Hi Krist
We were both on the ac forum(lot of things changed there,to bad) anyway nice to find a ac body here.Still love the ac software no matter what.
But thanks for your reply I will try your advice I downloaded nettfab and it looks fine too but if you say 3d coat works good on artcam I wil give it a try.
So you are happy with the Solus thats good to hear do you use your cnc machine still,I am just curious,
Berc

[krist hochburger]

Yeah, I could not be more disappointed with the transition to autodesk. The forum sucks, the cost is ridiculous, they dropped keyshot... I'm on 2015 r2 , there is nothing that I can't do with it (especially when coupled with 3D coat). I really love it, but am working on learning rhino. Gotta think of the long game.

After 2 months of owning a solus, I have started to use my mill again, mostly for rotary rings that I cut from tube.

It took me a while to realize that this is just another tool. It's great for most things but not everything.

[dcpattni]

Yeah, I could not be more disappointed with the transition to autodesk. The forum sucks, the cost is ridiculous, they dropped keyshot... I'm on 2015 r2 , there is nothing that I can't do with it (especially when coupled with 3D coat). I really love it, but am working on learning rhino. Gotta think of the long game.

After 2 months of owning a solus, I have started to use my mill again, mostly for rotary rings that I cut from tube.

It took me a while to realize that this is just another tool. It's great for most things but not everything.

Hello,

May i know why not for everything can you explain?

[krist hochburger]

Yeah, I could not be more disappointed with the transition to autodesk. The forum sucks, the cost is ridiculous, they dropped keyshot... I'm on 2015 r2 , there is nothing that I can't do with it (especially when coupled with 3D coat). I really love it, but am working on learning rhino. Gotta think of the long game.

After 2 months of owning a solus, I have started to use my mill again, mostly for rotary rings that I cut from tube.

It took me a while to realize that this is just another tool. It's great for most things but not everything.

Hello,

May i know why not for everything can you explain?

I make these particular wedding bands that have relief all the way around the outside that also has cutouts as well. In order to print it successfully you have to spend a lot of time placing your supports in the perfect place, also a lot of clean up time when the ring is cast to remove the places where supports had to be. It's not that it can't be done, it just seems quicker to mill the ring from a tube... Full disclosure, I've only had my solus for 4 months so maybe my knowledge of supports will grow and my opinion will change.

I use the solus over 95% of the time though.

[Archerm]

I use Artcam qunite a bit in conjunction with Rhino. I like the textures in Artcam. The piece I just printed is a Artcam / Rhino combination.

[artcad]

I think this piece is very easy to make in Artcam dont understand why you should use Rhyno,Artcam is the best software for flat parts,I think you could build up this piece just using the shape editor only anyway thats how I would do it with all respect for Rhyno users.Btw the toolpath for this part is very easy and to mill this would be very fast but then again I dont know how big it is.