Freeware CAM software?
Posted by
Michael Fagan
on 2008-01-12 23:34:18 UTC
I'm finally starting to do some production work with my CNC Taig milling
machine and I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for freeware CAM
software. I have managed to get this far in my CNC project without spending
a cent on software (Ubuntu, EMC2, NCPlot, DeskEngrave, Stickfont), and I
would like to be able to do CAM as well. I am using a couple of g-code
generation utilities that my friend wrote for me in Java but I would love to
create code directly from DXFs. I have Autodesk Inventor for CAD (part of a
much earlier project so it doesn't count) and I took a class in FeatureCAM
this summer so I'm pretty familiar with what to do, I'm just not willing to
spend money on software at this point.
Thanks very much for any suggestions
Michael
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machine and I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for freeware CAM
software. I have managed to get this far in my CNC project without spending
a cent on software (Ubuntu, EMC2, NCPlot, DeskEngrave, Stickfont), and I
would like to be able to do CAM as well. I am using a couple of g-code
generation utilities that my friend wrote for me in Java but I would love to
create code directly from DXFs. I have Autodesk Inventor for CAD (part of a
much earlier project so it doesn't count) and I took a class in FeatureCAM
this summer so I'm pretty familiar with what to do, I'm just not willing to
spend money on software at this point.
Thanks very much for any suggestions
Michael
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Discussion Thread
Michael Fagan
2008-01-12 23:34:18 UTC
Freeware CAM software?
Harko Schwartz
2008-01-13 08:35:43 UTC
Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Freeware CAM software?
Michael Fagan
2008-01-13 08:38:50 UTC
Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Freeware CAM software?
Yahoo
2008-01-13 14:32:49 UTC
Re: Freeware CAM software?
wanliker@a...
2008-01-13 14:38:41 UTC
Freeware CAM software?
shawn c
2008-01-13 14:48:11 UTC
RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Freeware CAM software?
shawn c
2008-01-13 14:48:27 UTC
RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Freeware CAM software?
Yahoo
2008-01-14 07:11:43 UTC
Re: Freeware CAM software?
stcnc2000
2008-01-14 07:54:06 UTC
Re: Freeware CAM software?
jimmy2309a
2008-01-14 16:31:25 UTC
Re: Freeware CAM software?