Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CNC scripting stuff....

On 17 May 2005, at 5:58 pm, lcdpublishing wrote:

> Perhaps this was already talked about, but have you considered looking
> at the old APT languages? This was what was used prior to CAD/CAM for
> a high level language. It was a very powerful language for
> programming a CNC machine of just about any number of axis - very cool
> stuff, but frankly, CAD/CAM ate it alive when it appeared on the
> market.

Very interesting. I didn't know CNC machine tools even existed in
1956 when APT became the first programming language to be defined as
an ANSI standard...

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