{"id":407,"date":"2017-02-14T20:13:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T14:39:48","slug":"x-carve-programming-and-kipwarem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/x-carve-programming-and-kipwarem\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Carve Programming and KipwareM\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we continue to ramp up our sister woodworking company … K\u00c4RV<\/a> … we continue\u00a0to demonstrate \u00a0and prove our mantras for our Kipware<\/a>\u00ae machine shop software. Metalworking operations … woodworking operations … both have a lot of similarities and requirements and we continue to prove our Kipware<\/a>\u00ae real world machine shop design\u00a0and features in our now real world woodworking environment.<\/p>\n

We recently blogged regarding how we utilize our KipwareCYC<\/a>\u00ae and KipwareQTE<\/a>\u00ae machine shop cycletime and cost estimating software to estimate retail costs for some of our wood products. If you missed it … see the full\u00a0article HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We are also proving our “not every job requires a CAD\/CAM system” programming mantra at K\u00c4RV<\/a> as well. We recently put our KipwareM<\/a>\u00ae – conversational CNC programming software for milling … to work on a shop floor programming project we were working on in the K\u00c4RV<\/a> workshop. If you haven’t read our article on shop floor programming vs. CAD\/CAM programming … it’s quite the eye-opener … you can read the full article\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Rest of the Story …<\/span><\/h2>\n

We came up with an idea for a unique clock design that featured a quartz clock movement inside a slice of an oak log. To house the clock body … we needed to mill a 3″ diameter hole in the slice … and we wanted to use our X-Carve CNC router to mill the hole. Simple enough … and it really illustrates how a simple programming project could turn into an overblown programming project if we were to use a CAD\/CAM program to create that G code program.<\/p>\n

In a CAD\/CAM system we would have had to first create a drawing … why? … and then use that drawing to create the toolpath. Some extra steps that would not only cost us time but that time expense has to go somewhere and that would mean additional labor costs associated with the cost of the clock … which would eventually be for sale on our website. Want one … get it HERE !!<\/a><\/p>\n

So we started KipwareM<\/a>\u00ae … no drawing required … and with a couple of fill-in-the-blank forms completed … we had our G code program to rough pocket and finish mill … using a helical milling routine … the 3″ hole needed to mount the clock movement. Here are some screenshots of the forms … simple, plain english, fill-in-the-blank forms with tons of machining options that created a quick and efficient toolpath … no drawing nor drawing time required Bang bang done !!<\/p>\n

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As I mentioned we roughed the pocket using a pocketing routine … but we finished the side walls using a helical type cutting routine. Very easy to create in KipwareM<\/a>\u00ae and posted out using KipwareXC<\/a>\u00ae with our X-Carve Profile. We sent the G code and drove the X-Carve using the Universal G Code Sender application. The results were outstanding and the fit for the clock movement was perfect … first shot.<\/p>\n

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Needless to say we saved ourselves a ton of time by not having to create a\u00a0drawing and by using our shop floor programming ( not CAD\/CAM programming ) model and\u00a0KipwareM<\/a>\u00ae.\u00a0We did the programming right at the machine … no expensive CAD\/CAM system required and no drawing or CAD\/CAM experience required.<\/p>\n

If you would like to learn more about K\u00c4RV<\/a> woodworking and see our other products and designs … please visit our website … www.KarvWoodworking.com<\/a><\/p>\n

If you would like to explore our conversational, shop floor programming applications or any of our other REAL WORLD machine shop software … please visit our website … www.KentechInc.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Kenney Skonieczny
\nPresident –\u00a0Kentech Inc.
\nWoodworker – K\u00c4RV Woodworking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we continue to ramp up our sister woodworking company … K\u00c4RV … we continue\u00a0to demonstrate \u00a0and prove our mantras for our Kipware\u00ae machine shop software. Metalworking operations … woodworking operations … both have a lot of similarities and requirements and we continue to prove our Kipware\u00ae real world machine shop design\u00a0and features in our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2,8],"tags":[5,112,47,111,101],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kipware-g-code-conversion-software","category-kipware_programming_software","category-kipware_quoting_estimating_software","tag-cadcam","tag-cadcam-programming","tag-shop-floor-programming","tag-woodworking","tag-x-carve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}