Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: How to choose?; was "parallel port finally obsolete?"

On 02/27/2012 07:38 PM, scyvt wrote:

> The other is distaste for anything Microsoft, which in my case is pretty severe,

Mine too, and I spent a while making a living working on NT, XP, etc.

> Your path of LinuxCNC saves me the displeasure of running Windoze for motion control, but - I think - demands that I spend a fair bit of time under the hood until everything is running properly. Assuming that OSX has allowed my brain to atrophy, do you assert that EMC has evolved to the point where it can really be used by the "brain dead"? If so, that's great, and you've got me half convinced - but what then about CAM? There's a host of CAM applications listed on the linuxcnc site, but no way to tell whether any of them would compare in capability to popular Windows apps, like, say, SheetCam. Do you remain in Linux for your CAM work, or revert to Windows for that? And BTW, what do you use for 3D CAD?

As with Parallels in the MAC world, there are plenty of Window$ products
that can be run under WINE (Window$ emulator) in Linux.

I run old NT programs in Wine with few issues, the newer programs
sometimes have issues (with things like .NET libraries.) Of course, you
can setup a virtual machine and load anything from DOS to Windows 7 (or
maybe 8) and run under the OS. I am not sure about OSX, but I believe
the virtual machines can emulate a MAC.

Dave 8{)


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