Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] RAMS Software

My Gawd!!
This sounds really awful!!
I think I'll stick with Masterscam!!!
Cheers

Marcus
-----Original Message-----
From: Horizons <horizons@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, October 28, 2001 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] RAMS Software

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>> I've been trying to get RAMS software to create toolpaths all day
>> long and the program SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK!
>>
>> Can ANYBODY help?
>>
>> Thanks, Smoke
>
>
>I don't use this program but tired it twice and got no were with it and put
>it
>in the "some day I'll look at it again" pile of demo cad and cam CDs.
>Last week I stopped by a local guys warehouse to see his new set up
>and he is using Rams. After 3 hours of looking and playing with the

software

>we got a understanding of what I think is a little different way about

doing

>thing
>in a cam package. In your cad program using a top view looking straight

down

>the
>Z-axis, save your 3D model as a STL file and then save the same thing as a
>DXF
>file. Load the STL model in Rams and then load the DXF file on top of it.
>The
>DXF will be in 2D only and the STL file will be in 3D.
>Looking at the top view you should be able to point and click on a line or
>drag a
>box around the part of the model you want to select, apart of it or the

hole

>thing.
>The part of the DXF file you select will let Rams know what part of the 3D
>STL
>model you want to apply the tool path to.
>If this is not the proper way to do this will some one please pipe in and
>let us know
>as all knowledge I have was gained in 3 hours of watching and some playing.
>
>Steve in Stuart, Fl
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