RE: Re: Engraving and engine turning

David,

I have run DanCAD/DanCAM/DanPLOT on a 486SX25 with 8mb ram and it gave me
200,000 steps/minute reliably. It may have go faster, but my machine was not
capable of reliably moving faster even though the computer was pulsing just
fine.


Tim
[Denver, CO]

> From: "David M. Munro" <Munro@...>
>
> >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