Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] GNU cad/cam

Glen wrote:

> Does anyone here remember what happened with GNU CAD/CAM ? There's a design
> spec on sourceforge and it was started by a few people on this list -- but I
> can't get an email through to the authors and it seems to have died.

Yup, that was the conclusion I came to, also. I think this was the one I
looked at, anyway. there are a LOT of dead-end projects on sourceforge,
where people lose interest, graduate, change jobs, etc. and can't continue
with the project. It takes a certain critical mass of people with the know
how in various areas (systems, compilers, programming, the particular task
at hand, etc.) to keep one of these projects progressing over an extended
time. I have seen a few where this really worked, though.

With the move to Linux by a lot of independant-minded people, it is only
a matter of time before a decent, low-cost commercial product or an
open-source project in the mechaincal CAD?CAM area does become
available.

It probably wouldn't take 2 or 3 good programmers very long at all to
come up with something with as much functionality, and much better
ease of use than Bobcad V16 (which I have, and use, but don't think
too highly of).

Jon