Re: Dancam
Posted by
Dan Mauch
on 1999-06-09 06:32:27 UTC
I communicate with Dan Hudgins a few times a year. I have finally given up
on dancam and Dan Hudgins. He was working on a new version of dancam but
I still could not convinvce him that it need to be a G code interpreter.
I still use Dancam/Danplot for a few things that I do. I use dancam to
drill PCB boards for my own use. I have a program that reads the excellon
drill file then optimizes the tool path, give a grphaical display of the tol
path, measures the optimized tool path vis a vis the unoptimized tool path
and then creates a dancam data file.
Jon Elson sent me a program that convert the tool paths to G codes. It
works fine but doesn't have all the bells and whistles that my program has.
So I decided to have my daughter in law update my program to generate G
code. It should only take an hour to make the changes but if you have every
worked with a programmer--- welll you know what I mean.
Dan Hudgins is a brilliant guy he just has problems. Sorry to see him
out of the loop.
Dan
on dancam and Dan Hudgins. He was working on a new version of dancam but
I still could not convinvce him that it need to be a G code interpreter.
I still use Dancam/Danplot for a few things that I do. I use dancam to
drill PCB boards for my own use. I have a program that reads the excellon
drill file then optimizes the tool path, give a grphaical display of the tol
path, measures the optimized tool path vis a vis the unoptimized tool path
and then creates a dancam data file.
Jon Elson sent me a program that convert the tool paths to G codes. It
works fine but doesn't have all the bells and whistles that my program has.
So I decided to have my daughter in law update my program to generate G
code. It should only take an hour to make the changes but if you have every
worked with a programmer--- welll you know what I mean.
Dan Hudgins is a brilliant guy he just has problems. Sorry to see him
out of the loop.
Dan