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Chapter 10 / File Creation and KCam

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ACME Profiler
ACME Profiler-Coyote Edit ion, Version 6.0.0.0. is software that is
able to generate a G-code program that w ill carve materi al by rais-
ing and lowering the z- axts as the x- and y-a xes are moving (see
Figure 10.26).
KCam will support a more three-dimensional cutting pat h than our
previous examples, but only if G-code is generated w ith a different
program like the ACME Profiler6. You can find it on the Internet at
the Simtel software repository. The page w here you can download
the program is www.simte l.net/ pub/pd/60491.html. It comes in a
registered version for $20 U.S., or the shareware versio n (w ith some
limitations) is free. This software is published by Science Specialists,
Inc. and their Web site address is www2 .fwLcom/ N kimble/
scispec/scispec.htm. Profiler is a straightforwa rd program to learn
and use. It looks at the gray scale of a bitmap image and generates
the cutting path by assigning the maximum depth you input to the

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