Re: OK Now What? (try this)

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

>
> OK, well at this point I'm going to get more familiar with the
> engraving with DeskEngrave and at some point I geusse I'll have to

buy

> a CAM program. Would thier be an advantage to TURBOCADCAM since i
> have and use TurboCad allready?
>
> Is Ace Converter considered a CAM program ?
>
> Thanks for help.
>
>

Don't know a lot about TurboCADCAM. The first release was not well
received and reported to be pretty buggy. Perhaps all that has been
resolved. Maybe someone with hands-on experience with a more recent
release will help us out(?)

To me a CAM package is an a graphical interactive piece of software
where the designer can select objects on the screen and apply a
toolpath using defined tools with defined profiles and shapes and the
software does all of the tedious math to put in things like offsets.
lead-ins and a myrid of other moves. It gives you a much finer point
of control over the cutting process. You can chose to cut different
objects using different approaches (direction of cut, etc) and
quickly change things. It is the computer equivilant of being the
person spinning the wheels on the machine and deciding how and what
to cut.

I don't consider any import or conversion program to be a CAM
program. They may have a few CAM features (like a car has features
shared by an F16) but they lack any of the finite control you get
with a true CAM program.

Depending on what you want to engrave you may find Deskengrave has
everything you want. I was addressing your original post museing
about the fact that it shouldn't be so hard to get output and I jsut
pointed out that one of the pieces was missing.