Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Maxnc - don't buy it!

Mike Rainone wrote:

> Problem is, what is the alternative? Yeager, Kellyware - I need true 3D. Any suggestion?

We have used the free Kellyware http://www.kellyware.com under Windoze
to do true 3D using the free trial version (only does 4 files) of http://www.millwizard.com to generate the GCode from STL and DXF
files.

So Kellywares KCam does true 3D. But it doesn't do circles G02/G03 in
a standard way, so its not too great for 2D. Also, because its Windoze it
doesn't do real time (ie smooth motions) all the time. But it does have
a jog mode with variable speed, so its pretty good for manual moves (one
axis at a time, or linear moves in 2 or 3 axes).

However, it is GREAT!! for testing your new hardware setups because it is
soooo easy to use. And sooner or later Kelly is bound to address the two
above problems. And its free for download, so you can get going right away.

After using the above for testing new (stepper S&D parallel port) setups
you can move on to more robust (but harder to set up, and more expensive)
gcode interpreters.

Doug