Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Excaliburcnc by XCAM

Hi Alan,

Would you mind providing a little more detail, I've been thinking about
getting one of these programs.
What's significantly different between them? Which do you like better?

Al


At 10:25 PM 13/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:

>Hi Chris,
>
>I have both DesKam and STLwork, and they are nowhere the same, as far as
>I can see! I'm itching to make some cuts using my STLwork. I've been
>able to import a DEM file into STLwork and generate Gcode from it.
>Looks good! STLwork has a whole list of imports, XYZ has my current
>interest.
>
>Alan KM6VV
>
>
>Chris L wrote:
> >
> > Chris Reynolds wrote:
> >
> > (snip) I'm strapped for cash,....
> >
> > Sheez, we related ?? :-)
> >
> > Anyhow, You got the pointer to Deskam... Then there is Deskam's
> brother, (bigger or littler) I don't know....STL Work from Fred at IMservice.
> >
> > Also, Did you check out Delcam Millwizard ? I think it is $250 at the
> Andrew Werby site. I did a job for a fellow who bought Millwizard so I
> could cut his CadKey files. Because he was buying it just for the
> > job, he reviewed both Deskam and Millwizzard as best he could. He
> picked Millwizzard, although he said there were some real good things
> about DesKam. This was before we knew of STLWork (some form of Deskam)
> > in which it is entirelly possible that under Freds direction, guidance
> and Input may now be a whole different animal than the original Deskam.
> >
> > The stl files we cut worked out very nice albeit the user can not make
> much adjustment beyond speed, toolpath direction, cutting plane and
> level, and a tooldiameter/shape. We backplotted the code and modified
> > where we wanted to go a little slower in some deep cavities. Fun
> project. Very nice finished part.
> >
> > Chris L
>
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