HSMAdvisor Integration?

Hi Les,

First, thanks for the superb software; I’m still clawing my way up from hobby machinist to pro and Sheetcam is making a fair bit of that possible. I’ve recently found HSMAdvisor for feeds & speeds calculations, super useful and giving good F&S advice (decent cycle times without as many cutter breakages as a certain other ubiquitous F&S calc). It appears that the programmer of that app is open to having it integrated with other software (https://github.com/swindex/HSMAdvisor-DLL-Test/tree/master) and it’d be a pretty great timesaver to have that available as a Sheetcam plugin…if e.g. SC could feed HSMA the tool diameter/number and cut width, and have HSMA reply with recommended feeds, speeds and DOC.

I understand that milling is secondary in terms of your core market and this is probably one of those things that looks simple only until you know anything about doing it. That said, any chance?

Kind regards and thank you for your great work,
Andy

HiAndy,

Sorry for the late reply. I’m afraid HSM advisor isn’t on my to-do list at the moment. I remember starting on an integration many years ago. I can’t remember exactly why but there was an issue with doing so. Having said that, HSM advisor has probably changed a lot in the mean time.