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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Safety/Reliability

Posted by Jon Elson
on 2000-11-03 23:13:48 UTC
Smoke wrote:

> LINUX is a vastly more reliable platform than Windows (of ANY version). So
> if someone can come up with the necessaary software to run CNC in LINUX I'd
> probably be on the doorstep looking for it! Software for converting .dxf
> files 6to G code would also have to be created along with whatever else is
> being done.

I've been running it for 2 years now. It is called EMC. It doesn't take dxf
files, but there are lots of programs that do that. See http://www.linuxcnc.org/
for more info.

Jon

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Jon Elson 2000-11-03 16:40:52 UTC Re: Safety/Reliability Smoke 2000-11-03 20:49:21 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Safety/Reliability JanRwl@A... 2000-11-03 21:03:10 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Safety/Reliability Mark Peugeot 2000-11-03 21:57:34 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Safety/Reliability Jon Elson 2000-11-03 23:13:48 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Safety/Reliability Jon Elson 2000-11-03 23:19:08 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Safety/Reliability