Our Laboratory has recently acquired an older E4D mill after being told it will mill from STL files. We mostly mill Zirconium on a DWX-50 and use Dental Wings to design and scan. The mill seems to work fine and it came with a job server PC, my problem is I can't find any information on how to import the STL's into the E4D job server.I have seen video of the importing being done using E.MIll software but I can't find any information on it. Talking to Planmill/E4D is not going to happen, they want $6000 plus training before they help.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Transferring ownership of a machine and software....it is a bit of a sticky wicket. More so from a software licensing standpoint made more complicated with its close integration/embedding with the machine.
Being an old machine and CAD/CAM software distribution guy, I can see both points.
I assume this is the video you are referring to when you mention you saw a
"video of the importing being done using E.MIll software". In this video it mentions e.mill comes with PlanMill and PlanScan. This software (and license) should have been provided to you with the machine. If it has not you may indeed have a tough road to utilizing it via imported STL models.
This video also show a "Job Supplier" icon on the Windows Desktop do you have that icon? If not you could use the Windows Start Bar to search for "Job Supplier" to see if it finds an executable. It may not as it could be a DLL made to run inside of PlanMill or PlanScan. It may also require a separate software license key.
The same search could be made for e.mill. It is a stretch but it may lead you somewhere as it could possibly be a standalone application; in which case it may also require a software license key- or a DLL made to run inside another application (PlanMill, PlanScan, PlanCad, etc.).
If you do not have any of the above software you should contact the person you purchased the machine from to obtain it.
You might even do a Windows Registry search for those executables/dll's. That may also prove to be enlightening.
You should also check in to legalities of the issues by reading the software license agreement(s) and see what it says about transferring any licenses.
Likely not much help here I'm afraid...