On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote: >On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 04:04 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >... snip > >> This is after all, a hobby to me, with only a very slim >> chance of ever making a dime from it, just something to keep me out of the >> bars as they say. > >Can those that have a keg installed in the shop refrigerator, that end >up drinking alone, use that saying? :)
Dunno why not. Me, I don't drink from a keg or can, too much alu. So mine comes in the usual brown bottles, less alzheimers that way I hope. And I may just move my little fridge, the one I bought to go with when I'm on a job someplace, to the shop come warmer weather again. Someplace to keep my iced green tea, along with an end of the day bottle of Michelob Ultra. Less than 100 calories, considering I'm diabetic, a somewhat lesser evil than the real stuff. >> I have an older version that has been installed and looked at when >> installed, but unused for about a year now, so I loaded it up and tried to >> open an example file, but all I could get was the 30 day advisory and the >> intersection markers. Not even a wire frame was rendered. > >The software key has to match the particular PC that you have Synergy >on. If you change PC's you need to call Weber Systems to get a new key >code. I've had to do this a few times. Because I live off of dumpster >PC's, I am constantly "upgrading" my PC's, so this key code can be a >pain. > >> There is paranoia, and then there is REAL paranoia. > >When you charge this much for software, there is a keen incentive to >copy it. It would be nice to have a version of 3D CAD/CAM targeted to >the hobby/education market with a relaxed software key or even a USB >dongle. I would not mind a $200 price range for a well supported >product. Neither would I if I thought I could get that much use out of it although that would push the limit since I'm retired & on SS these days. >> Interestingly, now the context sensitive help works, which I do not recall >> its working when first installed. That is/was surprising as its very >> helpful and I'm sure I would have had much better luck learning about it >> than I did. > >If you mean the interactive help side bar (pane) that changes depending >on the mouse pointer focus, there is a button that turns the interactive >help on and off. Off-hand I forget which button it is. > >> Apparently they have no intention of allowing a new bee to install it and >> learn enough about it to do anything productive with it in that 30 day >> time frame. That is sad, because if I had actually been able to do >> something productive with it in that time frame, I might have wasted a >> phone call to check the pricing for an old fart who might fall over yet >> today. I don't intend to, but I am now on my 75th trip around this star >> and I seemed to have miss laid my warranty papers. :-) > >... snip > >Printing out and analyzing the demo scripts (/usr/weber/http/playbacks) >helped me allot. (for more see: >http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Synergy/ >) So you obviously have a registered copy. How much, or what was the price range? >> >Next time I promise to talk about something completely different :-) >> > >> >Cheers, >> >Kent >> >> A good rant, thanks. > >Personally, I think sharing anything that is in the vicinity to on-topic >is a good thing. You never know where a hair-brained idea, shared among >hair brains might go. > >This missing CAD/CAM part of the Linux CNC work-flow is something I >think about a fair amount. I can't help but think that all of the basic >building blocks are already done and that it is a matter of the right >mix of people deciding that it is worth getting done. What happened to >make today's EMC2 from the base code developed at NIST? Can this process >happen again? I wonder if a Mach-like model is a better way, being >non-free but with semi-open development and community supported? > No idea Kirk. Those 'cad' programs that are open source, seem mainly to have been written by folks intending to make pretty eye candy for the monitor than in pursuing a format that can be readily converted into a solid model that a 'cam' program can trace and make into machine instructions. Or at least that's how it seems to me. There was some pretty fantastic video images built with what was originally an Amiga program, called LightWave. This worked from a wire frame of each and every part of the image, like a friend made an image of the 1702-D model Enterprise. It seems to me that the wireframe could be used as a basis for carving something like that out of a block of alu, although it would have to start as about a 18" cube to do it justice. Very detailed, just the wireframe file was over 20 megs. I have approached a couple of the linux cad authors with the idea that their proggy should be capable of importing that format, one said it was doable, but that project then went dormant. Life got in the way I'd assume. Given the complexity of that, my guess is that it probably will never be done as purely free software, so we may as well resign ourselves to making the hat they pass a little heavier on its way by us. The question then becomes, can they do it for what we can collectively pay? >Kirk > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. 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