DeskProto Expert

Description

DeskProto Expert

The DeskProto software can be downloaded, so no shipment is needed.

The Deskproto Expert offers a wealth of options for 3-axis CNC machining.

In the Expert edition all DeskProto options are available except for the rotation axes. The result is a CAM program that allows you to produce even the most complicated models.
A few of the features that the Expert Edition offers you:

• Two different user-interfaces: the wizards to get you started, and the dialogs to exploit all options

• Extremely fast calculations, also for complex geometries

• Large STL files are possible: 500 MB is no problem, for the 64 bits version even several GB

• 3D machining, simple 2D machining and bitmap machining all in one program

• The ability to freely add cutters, machines and postprocessors

• A very intuitive user-interface.

DeskProto Expert applications

The DeskProto Expert Edition is meant for professional users who's profession is not CNC machining. Like designers and modelmakers needing a prototype, artists for a sculpture, medics for a brace, etc.

DeskProto can be combined with any 3D CAD program, and with any CNC milling machine.
Using DeskProto you can create a model in many ways:

Functionality in DeskProto Expert

The following settings are available in the DeskProto Expert Edition:

• Roughing and Finishing operations, the roughing options: skin thickness and layer height
• Limit the area to be machined using a (freeform) segment
• Dynamic feedrate control: automatically reduce for high chip-loads. Also called the "Bit Saver feature"
• Many machining strategies available (see below)
• Inverse milling: machine a cavity that fits the geometry in the STL file
• Add support blocks, needed when machining from several sides or with a rotation axis
• Meander/climb/conventional, Ambient skipping, Collet collision check, ...
• Simple 2D machining, and you can also project the 2D contour on the 3D geometry
• Bitmap machining (grey-value to Z-Height), also project the bitmap relief on the 3D geometry
• Choose a user-interface: wizard or dialog-based, or create a project with the wizard and then fine-tune using the dialogs.
• Freely add machine-definitions
• Configure your own postprocessor (if needed).

Purchasing a DeskProto License

The distribution of DeskProto (all editions) is completely Internet based: all items needed are available via the website or by email. When purchasing a license the user receives an registration code by email.

The software can be downloaded from the website. This is a free 30 days trial version: you can use your registration code to remove the 30 days time-protection