On Monday 16 November 2009, Kent A. Reed wrote: >Gentle persons: > >Gene wrote: >> Another thought comes to mind, gCAD3D-1.40 was recently announced, and I >> played with it for a bit last night, but it runs in German and the >> English docs are several years out of date, so that makes for a very >> steep learning curve for me. Some of the example models it comes with >> are pretty complex since it can include camera output derived .gif's to >> aid in the solid model views. >> >> Its freeware. And if some enterprising soul were to translate the docs, >> that would be a huge help. It can output many std formats, although the >> NC format I looked at wasn't even remotely ours, there may be converters >> for DXF or DWF or one of the other 7 or 8 outputs it can do. > >Personally, I'm more attracted to efforts based on openCascade (notably, >I'm rooting for HeeksCAD/HeeksCAM) but if you ever run into this problem >of foreign-language documents getting in the way of understanding >someone else's work, do what real men do and run them through online >translators. My two favorites are: > >1) babelfish.yahoo.com --- enter the url of interest into the "Translate >a web page" box, select the From/To languages, and hit the Translate >button. In this case, I entered http://www.gcad3d.org/doc/IO_de.htm, >selected German to English, and immediately got enough information on >its IO-capability to decide I wasn't interested in gCAD3D for now. > >2) google.com --- enter the url of interest into the Google search >engine and select "Translate this page" for the appropriate search >result. Using the same url as above, I got a badly formatted but >similarly translated page. > >I don't like the Google translator quite as much but between the two >I've been able to translate difficult technical material, such as Swiss >patents, into usable English in a hurry. (In the old days, when I worked >shoulder-to-shoulder with scientists and engineers from all over the >world, I usually got what I needed by offering beer.) I liked Babelfish >better when I was working because I could compose messages in English >and translate them passably---but certainly not colloquially---into the >language-of-choice of my overseas collaborators (too bad there wasn't a >US-AU translator!). > The web/download page does have an English version, its the docs in the install package that are pretty much all in German. With a note that they may apply to about version 0.83, which is several years old.
>As for the NC output format, I don't know what they mean by "ISO NC", >perhaps ISO 4342:1985 "Numerical control of machines -- NC processor >input -- Basic part program reference language", a standard which I >don't know and which would cost me 280 Swiss Francs to download from ISO >and read. Guess who's not going there! > Well, at 280 SF, I don't believe I will be either. >Regards, >Kent > Thanks Kent. -- 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) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me. -- Linus Torvalds ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
