Using cirqoid machine and cirqwizard to route other jobs (plastic parts etc) from Fusion 360 - Great Success!

[Michael John Ward]

I just purchased my cirqoid machine and I am very impressed.

I wanted to see if I could mill a jig out of plastic that would enable me to make my own PCBs with the registration pins in the correct place.

I used an old piece of perspex (clear acrylic) and modeled a 1mm cutout in Fusion 360 (free 3D CAD program from Autodesk)

I then used the CAM processor of Fusion 360 to generate the g-code, and copy/pasted this into cirqwizard.

I deleted a few lines of unnecessary code and added about 3 lines to set the relative co-ordinates to the front left corner of my plastic piece, and away it went!

There's just one hitch.

3D modelling programs use a thing called a post-processor that is specific to the machine you are using (Siemens, Fanuc etc)

When you are ready to export your g-code to a file, you select a post-processor which adds or modifies some lines of G-code as necessary to control that specific machine.

There is no post-processor for cirqoid machine (yet) but the one that I found most vanilla flavored was called winPC.nc (available as an optional download in Fusion 360)

Just be careful with the z coordinates. It seemed like all mine were negative when they should be positive (and visa versa)

I just pasted the code into notepad++ and searched for Z. There were only about 5 of them in my code so I manually modified them. 

I definitely had the coordinate system setup with positive z facing up off the bed... not sure what caused the negative z.

If anyone else has tried something similar, feel free to add your experience, and/or suggestions.

Also if anyone has experience in creating post-processor files, please do contribute. I believe its java-srcipt. 

It would be great to have g-code made perfectly for the cirqoid machine, with no editing necessary!

Maybe I'll give it a go when I have a bit more time.

Happy making!

[Michael John Ward]

There is now a Fusion 360 post processor available on the cirqoid downloads page

Download it, then upload it to the Assets>CAMPosts folder in Fusion360

Then in the post process dialogue, click setup > use cloud posts 

It outputs a text file that you can manually run in Cirqwizard

[Joe Roddis]

Hi Michael

I get this error when I try to use the Post Processor as per your instructions:

Error: Failed to invoke function 'onClose'.

Error: Failed to invoke 'onClose' in the post configuration.

Error: Failed to execute configuration.

Stop time: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 8:10:18 PM

Post processing failed.