RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] RasterFratz / Making GCodes cheaply?

ACE Converter (free from Yeager Automation) will change .dxf to G code.
I don't know if it does lathe specific stuff, but you can always edit
the G-code if you need to. There are a number of free CAD packages that
will output the .dxf file.

Tim
[Denver, CO]
Stepper drives, motors, and encoders
http://www.KTMarketing.com/CNC.html

> -----Original Message-----
> While we're talking about it, what is the very easiest, I
> think I mean cheapest which is rarely the same thing, way of
> making GCodes to run my
> lathe on? And no one say type them out in notepad! : ) I
> am not looking
> to buy any £1k CAD package at the moment, particularly when
> all I'm cutting are very simple shapes. I only need to
> generate the GCodes and then I can use a program I was sent
> by Bruce to send them on to my machine's controller.
>
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