Thread: X-Carve as a budget CNC?
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Re: X-Carve as a budget CNC?
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Originally Posted by cbale2000 View Post
I think one of our mentors manually edited some generated G-Code to make it work one time a while back, but I think he decided it was too impractical to do on a regular basis as he never tried it again. Unfortunately HSMxpress doesn't help us much as we CAD in Inventor, though I have been meaning to try out the CAM tools in Fusion 360, which appear to be similar.
I believe this is the Inventor flavor of HSMxpress. HSMxpress is made by Autodesk so it only makes sense that there would be a version for Inventor.
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