rhino2plt Student Manual 1

Install rhino2plt

Organize Your Document

Run rhino2plt

Make sure you run the latest service release of Rhino3d. Unzip the rhino2plt_vXX.zip, copy the rhino2plt folder to the plug-ins folder located in the Rhinoceros installation folder. drag and drop the rhino2plt...rhp Plug in into the rhino window. The commandline confirms the sucess Drag and Drop loaded plut-in.... Now the rhino2plt command should be available. If you dont have access to Rhino s Plug-In folder, copy the rhino2plt - Folder to the local Disk. Please notice that the desktop can can be a network-folder. Follow the steps above.

Make a parent layer called rhino2plt. All of the child-layers will be transfered to plt-files. Each layer will become one file, correspondent to one Machine job. The Line Display Colors are linked to the different tools: blue: tool 4 - pen red: tool 2 - creasing wheel black: tool 1 - knife

type rhino2plt in the commandline if the rhino2plt - Folder isnt at the right location, you will get a first dialogue : search rhino2plt Plug-in Folder search your rhino2plt - Folder, mark it and press OK Now there is the final dialogue about the output-Folder. Choose a folder to save the .plt files to.

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Check the result

Set machine parameters

At Raplab - Log in

Now there should be a .plt file for each child-layer in the selected folder.

After Initialization of all tools, you have to set the Machine Parameters for each Tool: Tool 1 - knife You can check the success of generating the plt files with the trial Select Tool <ESC 2-1-1-1-ENT> version of ABViewer Speed XY-Down <ESC 1-1-1-1> 150<ENT> www.cadsofttools.com UP-Pos <ESC 1-1-8-1> Material thickness + 3 mm<ENT> or with www.viewplot.com DOWN Pos <ESC 1-1-8-2> 0 <ENT> As the .plt file has only Toolnumbers - not Colors you might see Z-Offset <ESC 1-1-8-3> 0.2 <ENT> maximal 1.0 different colors then in Rhino. Tool 2 - creasing wheel Select Tool <ESC 2-1-1-2-ENT> transfer your rhino and .plt files to the network or a memorySpeed XY-Down <ESC 1-1-1-1> 150<ENT> stick. UP-Pos <ESC 1-1-8-1>Material thickness + 3 mm<ENT> DOWN Pos <ESC 1-1-8-2> 0 <ENT> (less creasing = negative value e.g. -0.5) Z-Offset <ESC 1-1-8-3> 0<ENT> Tool 4 - pen Select Tool <ESC 2-1-1-4-ENT> Speed XY-Down <ESC 1-1-1-1> 150 <ENT>

you can log in to arch-raplab-w-4 with your nethz user name / password. If you use this computer the first time, you have to set up the serial port by running ZUND-Driver-Setup. With the Output-Controll-Center you can send .plt files to the plotter.

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Proper set up of output controll

Proper set up of output controll

Proper set up of output controll

sometimes the output-controll-center will only appear in the sometimes the job-queue / the column on the left is not visible. task-line, because it is minimized. right-click and select maximize. Grap the right edge of the frame to tear the column to open it.

hopefully the output-controll-center looks like this.

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Delete old files

Add job

Execute Job

old jobs that where not send to the machine, or also the jobs in It is a good idea to copy your plt-files to a local folder before the Done-registry might slow-down job execution. Delete all of sending it to the machine ! them. This might take a while, sometimes Output-Controll-Center will crash down. Notice the desktop of your nethz-Account is a network-Folder ! Add a Job: Menu Job - Add Job - Browse,Select file Select Queue zuend3_z-Schneiden on COM1 (make sure the checkbox Hold is set ) - OK You can repeat this steps for several files.

now your file(s) should appear in the queue Z-Schneiden. With the green flag, you can send them to the plotter. Make sure that the plotter is Online.

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