Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: re:EMC

Tom Caudle wrote:

>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, Anne Ogborn <anniepoo@n...> wrote:
> > ahh...
> > Years ago I did have one interaction with CAM.
> >
> > Back about 86 I wrote a translator that took in
> > the output of the low-cost 'drafix' CAD package
> > (which I helped write) and put out g code.
> >
> > Yes, it did automagic tool offset. No, it didn't
> > do divot control or nesting. I was probably pretty
> > clueless about what I was doing.
> >
> > Annie
>
> WOW you helped write Drafix! I still have my old Drafix disks and
> books. It was actually a pretty good piece of work for a low cost
> drafting system. I certainly was no AutoCad but then you didn't have
> to go to school to learn Drafix (or take out a loan to buy it). I
> turned out a bunch of drawings using Drafix and even tried Planix. I
> could use it okay but I'll bet it baffled most people that had never
> used its sister product. Didn't Autodesk buy the product? I tried to
> get an update of Drafix and ended up with a product named QuickCad
> that sure smelled like Drafix.

Yes, I was employee #1 (sorta) of GPSI, which became Foresight resources,
which put out drafix. It was my first job out of college, though I paid
my way through college with my fingies.

drafix did exactly what it was intended to do - create simple drawings simply.

Larry Pfortmiller, the motive force behind it, said "drafix is computer aided
_drafting_, not computer aided design".

Later on Foresight put out a Windows product also called "drafix". It was wildly
inaccurate and poorly done, IMHO. It died.

I did a dfx (drafix file, bad choice of names) to g0 code converter for it.