On Thursday 06 November 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote: >On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote: > >... snip > >> 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. > >Even on a hobby basis, this could be recouped with a few runs of a >specialty part. I just wish I could think of a part to make that would >sell. Years back I made some gland nuts/bearing mounts for a 19 >o'something Spad. They were fun to make, but there isn't much call for >these on eBay. > >... snip > >> So you obviously have a registered copy. How much, or what was the >> price range? > >My mind is like a steel trap trying to hold water. I bought it quite a >few years ago and can't remember what I paid. > >... snip > >> 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. > >I agree, but I wonder if enough of the basic functions are there and >reusable? > >... snip > >> 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? > >I am hoping that an openCAM project can be broken into small enough >parts that each part would be easy for a small group to complete. I >recall from someone talking about the energy problem, (paraphrasing) >"it's worth pursuing ten percent solutions, because if you have ten of >them, you've solved the problem". > >Kirk
Chuckle, I like that, as long as we don't have 3 copies of page one, 5 of page 3, and 2 of page 9 to make up that 10. And that is an approximation of the situation now I believe. :( Back to bed. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
