RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] inexpensive 4 axis CNC software (yeah, right!)

Scott, Marcus:

You might want to take a look at TurboCNC. It'll support 8 axes and comes
with Source Code at a low cost.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Marcus & Eva [mailto:implmex@...]
| Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:46 AM
| To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
| Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] inexpensive 4 axis CNC software (yeah,
| right!)
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| Ha Ha Ha Ha Haw!!
| Yup, it's a long shot all right.
| Last time I checked out Mastercam mill level 3 (not quite up to 4 axis yet
| without a nasty custom post processor) we were talking about
| $15,000.00 USD.
| Most 4th axis work is faked on the rotary axis anyway, (one axis
| is swiped,
| and used to drive the rotary table) and the rotary axis typically moves in
| very simple ways, and not in conjunction with more than one other axis.
| (okay, I ignored helical tapers)
| You should be able to fake it with any normal CAM system by hand
| coding the
| rotary moves, and doing the appropriate axis swap.
| If you need full four axis simultaneous interpolation, for
| "surfacing on the
| round" like say machining a human head like shape, you are in for either a
| programming nightmare from hell, or a post processing nightmare from hell.
| Cheers
|
| Marcus
| -----Original Message-----
| From: S.L.Ramsay <slramsay@...>
| To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
| Date: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:06 PM
| Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] inexpensive 4 axis CNC software (yeah, right!)
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| >ok, so it's a long shot. but does anyone know of an inexpensive
| 4 axis CNC
| software that will run a closed loop CNC mill on windows NT or 2000?
| >
| >Scott
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