First, draw the part (CAD). Then, set the cut and check it in 3D (CAM).
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Open a PDF drawing and the 3D model and operations are built for you. For anything missing, pick the lines and click the layer. Then work across the toolbar from left to right: PASS, G-code and the 3D simulation.
No PDF, no DXF: a blank screen. Place vertical and horizontal lines by typing their positions, close the corners with a fillet R0, add the stock and dimensions, then put each line on its operation layer (OD / ID / GROOVE / THREAD).
Picking up the part from the CAD video. PASS gives every operation a tool and a toolpath, and the G-code comes out as one program. Then the 3D simulation cuts it and colours it against the drawing.
Just the parts that tend to trip people up the first time.
Instead of drawing lines, you place points in order. Type only a diameter and it stands up a face; type only a Z and it runs along the diameter. The value you skip carries over from the last point, and the closing segment back to the start is added automatically — no overall length to work out.
Assigning each drawn line to the operation that will cut it. Outside to OD, bore to ID, groove to GROOVE. That colouring becomes the list of operations.
The bar you start from. Add clearance and it shows the actual diameter the cut will start from.
The correction that cancels out the under- and over-cut a round insert tip leaves on tapers and radii. In LATHE-NC you pick the insert; the maths is applied for you.
Runs every registered operation from the top in 3D. Each one inherits the shape the previous one left, so collisions and leftover material caused by the operation order show up exactly as they would on the machine.
Every operation joined into a single G-code file. Copy it and take it to the machine.
Nothing to install — it opens in a browser. Free during beta.