Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] $250 machine .. what about the 'big boys'?

well, if not in the dark ages, at least before the age
of geometry when ppl learned how to define an arc!
when i gasped in shock to learn of such devices as
'ladder logic programmers', my prof explained that
they had to do that cuz the skill pool was so aged
they couldn't learn but couldn't be tossed out,
either...
legacy....inertia....2000 years of that available for
whining on!

even so, i disagree on the point. as i've watched
hobbyist magazines dwindle, consolidate and
disappear...as i've watched all the pieces and parts
in the hobby shops give over the shelf space to models
and r/c vehicles...that's not some control system
making ppl lose interest in doing things for
themselves. it may be many different other things,
like the idea that they must aspire to a 'job' instead
of self employment like a REAL man....but deficient as
any aspect of cnc may be, it's definitely not the
cause for the lack of skills, lack of ambition, lack
of innovation, etc. which are symptoms.





--- b Johnson <bxxjohnson@...> wrote:

> the reason is that control systems are still in the
> dark ages.
>
> let me illistrate: all of you have heard the fabled
> assembly instructions of the 1970's "fold flap a
> into slot c" then you would have to go to 2 other
> pages in the assembly instructions to figure out
> what the heck that means?
>
> try to assemble most k-mart products today doesn't
> usually even require reading the directions at all
> because the ***%%*&&*& cheap thing only goes
> together one way. half of the time instructions are
> only pictures (for those forign invaders who don't
> even speak english or spanish).
>
> my point is cnc control software is still folding
> flaps into slots and is totally ignoring new human
> interface standards being used since the mid 90's.
> when conversational style controls meet with 2d and
> 3d sylist scanners, mpeg and html the market will
> boom. there is an army of hobbiests still buying
> model kits and making modifications to them. why
> not sell "projects" that can be modified in a
> dynamic and "conversatonal" manor?
>
> Ron Yost <musik42@...> wrote:
> I wonder why one of the 'biggies' in
> home-shop/construction tools hasn't
> come out with an 'affordable' smallish CNC gantry
> machine/router. I'd
> think Makita, Ryobi, etc. could produce one for a
> decent price.
>
> And that's just flatbed stuff. Why aren't there any
> reasonably priced
> smallish-scale 3-D (prototype) machines yet?? Why
> are we still building
> these things ourselves?? (Not that there's anything
> wrong with that.)
>
> Guess they don't see a real market for such a thing
> ... or their
> designers don't have much 'vision' .. or both?? I
> know they're mainly
> in the home construction game, but tools is tools.
> :)
>
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