I worked out a free set of tools for parts modeling and gcode generation. The details are here:
http://www.britishideas.com/2007/11/19/part-design-tools-and-workflow The downside is that you need to have Windows as well as Linux. Andy Ray Henry wrote: > Gene > > You might consider Synergy from Weber systems. It's not free after 30 > days and it does not run like a drawing program but it will do solid > modeling or 3d or 2.5d. It really is intended to be a manufacturing > cad/cam system. > > I don't own stock in Weber but I know all the really great folk there. > There is a deb that will run on the EMC Ubuntu CD. And a generic EMC > post. > > Rayh > > > > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 16:54 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Giving up on the freebie qcad cuz its pure 2d, I looked around with google >> for >> something that supposedly could do 3d, and found brlcad. >> >> I just unpacked the 70 some megabyte version 7.10.4 prebuilt x86-32 tarball >> & >> moved its base directory to someplace I can add to the $PATH, and ran it. >> Pretty primitive interface cuz its universal. Possibly prettyable if I tell >> it where x lives. >> >> However it apparently has its own file format, called a .g format. >> Or .gif, .jpeg and no doubt one or two other formats. Looking at a .g file, >> it appears to be a text format, but $00 filled into std sized data blocks. >> >> Has anyone ever used it for parts design? And if so, how did you convert .g >> stuff to gcode? >> >> Or am I barking up yet another wrong tree with no raccoons or bears in it? >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > -- Andy PGP Key ID: 0x67090A54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
