Intro

Hi All,

Perhaps now I should make an introduction also.

My name is Russell Dunn. I am living in mining camp about 180km north east
of Newman in the Pilbara district of the state of Western Australia. This is
about 1,800 kms 1,150 miles north of Perth, our state capital.
My profession is of Mech. Engineer, involved with the maintenance of a 24
million tons/yr iron ore processing plant.

For nearly 40 yrs now I have built miniature live steam locos scale 1 : 16
and 1 : 12, have the usual things in my workshop when it is erected. At
present all my furniture and goods are in furniture removalist's store. I do
not have DRO or CAM in my workshop just normal lathes and vertical milling
machine and vertical milling attachment that goes onto the rear of the bed
of my small lathe (TOYO ML 360, a beautiful machine).
My first interest in joining this list was my wish to hear of the
experiences of others with CAD. In my work and hobby I use both AutoCAD R14
and TurboCAD V6.0 Professional. I think that the Turbocad package has the
best rendering software I have seen, can make any piece of s----t that I
draw look good.

The last loco that I built was designed in AutoCAD. The 3 truck Willamette
in 1 : 8 scale that I am designing now is in TurboCAD so I will learn more
about the package.

Would like to hang around the edge and learn more of the CAM, I have the
EMCO NC package for small lathe still in box, but not enough knowledge to
install and use it.

Kind regards,
Russell Dunn