Re: code generation?

Now that we all know that we should be able to walk before operating
heavy machinery what cam software is recomended and any tutorials.
Ive dnloaded deskam2000 and found some frustrations and simplicity.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, CL <datac@l...> wrote:
> Mark Thomas wrote:
>
> >(snip)
> >
> >What I will say is that writing your own code is very satisfying
and
> >helps demystify the CNC process, and can at times be the quickest
way to
> >go from blank to finished part.
> >
> For those who can not always remember the correct sequences of Peck
> Drilling etc, I might recommend an add on "Clipboard". I use one
called
> "Clipomatic" and it is freeware. (google will find it)
>
> What it really is is a Clipboard that "caches" all of your Ctrl-C
(copy)
> commands so you can recall them at any time. Instead of "pasting"
with
> Ctl-V, you use Ctrl-Alt-V.
>
> The COOL part is you can SAVE "ClipSets", which in the case of
writing
> G-Code, Create a Set of Pasteable code. Any of those trickier to
> remember G commands are no more than a Ctrl-Alt-V away, all you
need to
> do then is insert different values for the locations. I have found
it
> runs absolutely transparent.
> Just a handy little program.
>
> Chris L