Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Free Software

Smoke wrote:

>
> You have a Modela? I've got an MDX -15. I can draw the part using Rhino, save the file in .dxf format and
> the Modela software automatically generates the machine code for machining the part.
>
> Granted, machining a complicated part is really slow but for the contest, no one says the part has to be very big do they?
>

Hey, I don't machine big parts anyway -
and with an envelope of 1.5 x 4 x 6 I can't.

But most of my parts are HO scale buildings and people.
The people are about 3/8 x 3/8 x 3/4

I draw my parts in Ray Dream and Poser and put them
through the Modela Player.

I like the fact that it's an integrated package. I came home
with the machine thursday and was making parts monday.

I've found a few things I don't like, though, and definitely
wouldn't spend $3K on upgrading to the MDX-15.

I've had a couple struggles with bugs in the path generation,
and Roland's tech support has been clueless, clueless.
I finally called my dealer and told them if the problem wasn't
addressed within 48 hours I'd be at their door with the machine.
Finally the guy who knew something called me.
The dealer's accounting is equally brilliant - I just got an overdue
bill for the machine. I paid for it in full when I picked it up.

It was billed as doing soft plastics and soft metals. Truth is,
I've basicly quit cutting styrene on it, it drops steps too often.
I cut in foam and wax.
Another modeller has one and he routes a lot of styrene on his.
What do you cut on yours?

For the most part it's been doing it's job.
For what it's worth, here's some parts off of it.

http://www.idiom.com/~anniepoo/eng/walls.JPG

Annie