Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Excaliburcnc by XCAM

Thats interesting to hear. Am I dreaming about them being from the same source ? I was pretty sure it was a Deskam product, but I figured it would have been taken further under IMS's wing.

Now I want to have a look again.

Thanks

Chris L

Alan Marconett KM6VV 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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