Re: What does everybody use...

Yes Jon this helps immensely. Thanks you very much for sharing your
setup with me and others who might be interested. One question, do you
use Flash Cut to automatically convert your DXF to G code? How well does
this system of auto conversion appear to work?

I use AutoCAD 13 for my CAD, and if I can get about the G code editing
for now I will most certainly do so until I am more familiar with what
I'm doing.

Thanks again,
Don Hughes

Jonty50@... wrote:

>
> From: Jonty50@...
>
> In a message dated 5/17/99 2:26:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pencad@...
> writes:
>
> <<
> I would like to know briefly what the majority of members here have for
> their setups. Please take me from the PC(including all hardware and
> software) all the way to the cutting head. This is just to be ensure
> that I have the grasp that I feel I am starting to get up to this point.
>
> >>
>
> Hi Don,
>
> I'm currently running a homemade CNC router. The stepper motors are NEMA 23
> size that I salvaged from old (heavy duty) printers and an HP plotter. The
> driver board is a Camtronics 2 amp 3 axis chopper driver unit that plugs into
> the parallel port. The computer I'm running it with is a 133 mHz 486 with 16
> meg and a 100 mb harddrive. DeskNC for win95 runs the G-code and directly
> controls the stepper motors. That's the only software that I have on that
> particular computer... A 30,000 rpm Porter Cable laminate trimmer is the
> cutting head.. With router bits, I have no trouble machining aluminum and
> brass with this setup..
>
> The computer I use for design is a 350 mHz K6-2 with 64 meg of SDRAM and a
> 2.5 gig harddrive..
>
> Flash Cut's demo package won't run any motors but the DXF to G-code
> conversion utility works quite well as far as I can tell. For a CAD program,
> I'm still using Keycad complete for DOS.. a very old and rather limited
> software, but I'm familiar with its quirks and limitations. Keycad will
> output DXF files that the Flashcut demo reads with no problems so far..
>
> FWIW the fly in the ointment for the Cadvance 6.5 that was released freely
> recently seems to be that it will not export a DXF file... that capability
> seems to be disabled in the giveaway package...
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Jon Croad
>
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