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willwizard? or other CAM packages

Posted by stokessd
on 2003-11-25 10:01:00 UTC
This has been discussed at length but:

I'm putting together a Taig CNC milling system, and I'm on the hunt for a decent CAM
package. I've got the CAD end pretty well covered with autocad and autodesk
inventor. I downloaded DeskCNC and it looks good but crashes all the time on my
machine. MeshCAM looks good but the g-code it produced seemed to be traversing a
lot more than it was milling. I downloaded an evaluation copy of MillWizard and it
seems pretty slick, but there doesn't seem to be any mention of it here.

I'm looking for a reasonable 3D CAM package that can take in DXF and stl files and
produce tool paths. Any reasonably priced suggestions?

It appears that the dolphin package uses a fascist copy protection which would make
it hard to put on both my desktop and laptop machines, so I'm not sure I want to deal
with that.

Anybody use or like millwizard? I think it comes with the full CNC'ed taig mills.


Sheldon

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stokessd 2003-11-25 10:01:00 UTC willwizard? or other CAM packages Fred Smith 2003-11-25 13:04:41 UTC Re: willwizard? or other CAM packages