Re: Digest Number 3007

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Keith Sloan
<keith.sloan@u...> wrote:

> >> What other CAD to gcode options are there for the home hobby

shop

> >> where no money is being made?
> >>
>
>
> > http://www.imsrv.com/hobby/grp.html

> I THINK you missed the point the man said "where no money is being

made?"

> i.e. He finds Visual Mill 3.0 attractive because its free. I don't

call over

> $300 for the home hobby shop doing desktop milling/routing CHEAP.

DeskCNC is $300. It has CAM, that is CNC programming, engraving,
tracing and 3D height fields conversion to G-code AND, is also a CNC
machine controller. It's the cheapest integrated solution for all
these functions in a windows platform. It's supported and widely
used around the world.

Vector CAD wireframe is a unique product that is nearly free. It
can "redraw" the order and direction of selection of entities in a
DXF file, optimize drilling and cutting order in the blink of an eye
AND save it as a USABLE SEQUENCED DXF or HPGL file.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

No money being made is an indicator of business management, not lack
of value. Good tools will often change that too.

Fred Smith - IMService