Hi, I’m very new to the world of CNC but we have just bought a 770MX for our R&D team. We’re hoping in the longer term that we can get slick enough to use the same kind of principals as our 3d printers. design in Creo, export the data, and then run the part.
But there’d the thing, we’ve added the Creo Prismatics Module to our package from PTC. But I wonder if anyone else is doing the same thing with the same software, I can’t see a direct post processor in Creo that will get me to the right G Code for the Tormach to read in. Anyone done it?
No direct advice/experience for Creo (I think I know someone who uses it but with Haas, so no help there). When this question has come up in the past with other CAM packages, it seems like the answer to machine/vendor specific posts for G Code ends up being your CAM vendor/reseller being responsible to resolve this support issue.
What posts do they provide out of the box?
LinuxCNC is your best bet if Tormach is not an option, as PP is LinuxCNC under the hood.
Fanuc is supposedly compatible but has issues with certain parts of the G Code dialect not being implemented the same. Maybe something to start with to trial or adapt…
Some options until someone who has a direct answer/familiar with Creo:
- have to find the closest most compatible post and see if it works
- take that and adapt a complete Tormach post from another platform to yours (AI can certainly help do some heavy lifting but needs human verification)
- Use a CAM package that has a known working/valid Tormach post/user base - Fusion is probably one of the more popular options for no/low cost for “makers”