Many programmers can relate to watching a perfectly calculated toolpath crash into a fixture at 3 AM. The simulation may look ...

A common scenario involves a production manager who recently spent $3,400 fixing a spindle collision. “Thirty seconds of simulation would’ve caught that,” is a frequent lament. This is a common ...

"We’ve long had automation in our company’s vision and road map for the future," Buikema said. "As we focus on the small and ...

Abstract: In the field of personalized footwear and orthopedic sole manufacturing, acquiring accurate lower limb measurements is essential. While numerous image-based techniques—such as OpenCV with a ...

[Fabian Chouteau] built a plotter out of CD-ROM parts. Yawn, you say? Besides being a beautiful physical build, this one has a twist. He wrote the software and firmware for the entire project himself, ...

Washington and New York are writing legislation requiring a massive refit of CNC and 3D printers or they’re banned from sale.

Today in programming language hacks we have string art rendered in BASIC. String art — also known as pin and thread art, or filography — is an art form where images are invoked by thread woven between ...

Load and parse G‑code (G0/G1 linear, G2/G3 arcs with I/J) High‑DPI viewport: zoom, pan, fit‑to‑bounds; grid with major/minor lines Measurement points: click to add; list/manage in sidebar; export to ...

By 2035, the standalone tool will vanish, evolving into hyper-connected, self-correcting autonomous cells. Artificial ...

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