Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] getting started in CAD/CAM

M-m-a-a-n-n-n! Have you found the right spot! I'm sure
you'll get some excellent ideas from this group.

RatHex

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> From: skykotechnologies <skykotechnologies@...>
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] getting started in CAD/CAM
> Date: Thursday, October 03, 2002 7:31 PM
>
>
> Hi all, just found this group.
>
> I am just finishing up converting a Shizuoka bed mill to

run EMC. My

> previous experience with cnc has been a converted

sherline (the 5HP

> motor on this mill weighs more than the whole sherline

:-) ).

>
> Anyway, I mostly ran autocad plot files on my sherline

using some

> software my wife wrote (she is the software engineer, I

am the EE).

> I now find myself needing a toolpath generator (g-code)

and possibly

> a CAD program (if autocad will not cut it).
>
> I know about the recent sale on rhino/visual mill, and

while $1500

> seems very very reasonable for that package, I would have

nothing

> left for tooling.
>
> Are there any CAM packages out there that are open

source, or that

> people who use EMC on here would naturally gravitate

towards? Am I

> stuck with notepad?
>
> I did a search through old posts, at least as far back as

I could

> stand (yahoo is slooooow). Nothing really popped out as

being dirt

> cheap or free. There was something called Dolphin, but

it seems the

> same price as visualmill is now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
>
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