Using the DeskProto CAM software for standard rotary machining (using the machine's fourth axis) has been explained in the Venus tutorial video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=S25hzAP1HXc). This new video is about a more complex situation, when the cutter needs to travel below the rotation axis. In many CAM programs this is not possible, in DeskProto it is. The video shows machining a curved table leg (cabriole leg) on a SainSmart 4040 CNC machine, using DeskProto Version 8. #rotarymodule #rotarymodule

The DeskProto 3D CAM software can create toolpaths for 5-axis machines: in this video we explain step by step how that is done. The video starts with a short explanation of five-axis CNC, and of the type of 5-axis toolpaths that DeskProto supports (the limitations are: only for machines where the part rotates, and only indexed machining). Then the video shows how to create toolpaths for five sides of a simple die, after which the die is machined in PS foam. After this tutorial you will be able t