Re: VECTOR VS AUTOCAD & TORBOCAD

Raul,

I can't advise on low cost CAM software (my only experience is with
MasterCAM - not low cost), but I may make a suggestion that may get
you by until you find a package. In the CAD software that I've worked
with you can offset your profiles or surfaces to find the centerline
of your toolpath, then get endpoints, centers, and radii to manually
G code. Probably not practical for large work, but I've done it on
the job in the past when CAM wasn't available to me.

Perhaps that will help?

Ivan


--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "ralaco <ralaco@y...>"
<ralaco@y...> wrote:

> VECTOR VS AUTOCAD & TORBOCAD
> My expertise in CNC is plasma cutters with Indexer LPT and as the

CAD

> software AutoCad, TurboCad and Corel.
> I'm finishing a CNC Routers to be run with Mach1, and I need a cam
> software.
> I'm looking for Vector but this is also a CAD software.
> What's the best advice for a CAM software when I have other CAD
> software?
> Is there a good low price ease to learn CAM software to work with

my

> CAD, or it's better Vector as a CAD-CAM combo?
> I will appreciate your best advice.
>
> Regards
> Raul Lara