Re: Re: Engraving and engine turning

>From: "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@...>
>
>You can d/l dacad3d from www.metalworking.com look in the shareware room.
>D/l the files in one of the zipped files is the program danplot. It works
>very well. What I liked about it was that it would read hp-gl files also.
>The problem is that it doesn't read standard G code. Dan Hudgins chose his
>own way of creating a tool path file. I have mastered that but like G code
>better.
>Dan

Thanks for the information, Dan. I have downloaded the program, not that
it is any good for use on my mac, but so that I can read the documentation,
which, as I suspected, appears as word files.

The program works on a DOS (not windows) machine, and this brings up the
question of where I would best acquire something as obsolete as an Edison
phonograph, while still being reliable enough and fast enough to power a
mill. At what phase of PC evolution was DOS completely abandoned? I went
straight from commedore vic 20 to my first of a series of mac's so I am
completely ignorant about DOS.

David M. Munro