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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
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:
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Two different user-interfaces: the wizards to get you started, and the dialogs to exploit all options
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Extremely fast calculations, also for complex geometries
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Large STL files are possible: 500 MB is no problem, for the 64 bits version even several GB
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3D machining, simple 2D machining and bitmap machining all in one program
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The ability to freely add cutters, machines and postprocessors
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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:
Simply machine your part from one side.For instance this insole, a relief model, a thermoforming mold.
Machine two separate halves of a model, each from one side, later to be glued together. Like the right and left half of this hand-tool.
Machine the model from two sides, either using a rotation axis for the 180 degree flip or doing a manual flip. For either case DeskProto provides a wizard to assist.
2D toolpaths can be combined with 3D machining, be projected on a 3D geometry, and also wrapped around an object when rotation axis machining.
When Bitmap machining DeskProto will convert each Z-value in the bitmap to a Z-height in the relief. This means that you can machine any photo! The relief can also be projected on or wrapped around a 3D geometry.
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