Viewing actual cut, rather than centre line

Is it possible in Axis sim mode to view the 'volume' of material cut by a specified tool, i.e. a 3mm end mill, rather than just the centre line of the tool path ?

Even an approximation would be helpful, or some cunning work around that would produce a similar result.

A quick check show I'm using 2.6.0~pre version.

John

PS my appologies in advance if this is a well documented view, but my search has turned nothing up.

Well, a month has gone by with no ideas offered. I wonder now if I used the wrong term when I asked for 'volume' cut, when the width of the tool in the tool path would have been a step forward.
Is that any easier or possible ?

John

I don't know if easily done in axis, but look at openscam, it is a gcode visualizer that looks good, the little I have played around with it.

'Openscam' - is that really its name ?
Sounds dodgy to say the least, but thanks for the tip, Alan, I'll go look-see.
John

Yeah I thought it was weird I had to put my social security number for the download to work.

Well that didn't get me very far.
Downloaded the 32 bit version, used the OpenSCAM page's instructions for installing via a terminal, and finished with the program appearing in my Applications list.
And that's as far as it goes - it gives the spinning icon, then nothing.
I tried using a terminal to run it, but equally unproductive.
I'll hunt round for others with the same experience, to see if there's an answer, but if anyone wants to chip in, please do so.
John

I found an answer on the askubuntu.com page, where they same problem is asked.
This involved using the following
sudo apt-get install libgtkglext1 libc6 bzip2 zlib1g libexpat1 openssl libgtk2.0-0 libglade2-0 freeglut3 sqlite3
which I did, but then running openscam in terminal gave the following error -
openscam: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_regex.so.1.40.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

During that install, I noted several files were the 'newest version', but one oddity I spotted -
libglade2-0 is already the newest version.
libglade2-0 set to manually installed.
Not sure if that is relevant as I don't know what it means

John

sudo apt-get install libboost-regex

or maybe libboost-regex-dev

I'm not sure exactly what package you need, I didnt install it on my linux machine, I am using the windows version.

Alan, I tried the first line but terminal 'couldn't find it'.

I'll try the second command later today, and post the result.

I've also posted a request for help on the ubuntu forum, even though a search found no mention of OpenSCAM, which surprised me !

John

a little bit of searching shows the package may be named libboost-all-dev

It's hard to say for sure, I haven't run linux on my daily computer in 10 years, and my cnc box isn't connected to the internet.

You can try
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
if that doesnt work, open synaptic package manager and search for boost or libboost
hopefully you will find a package that matches there.