On Mar 21, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Mike Payson wrote: > None of these are Open Source, and non work natively with Linux, but > since those requirements weren't mentioned in your question, only in > the notes you linked to, I'll ignore them in my response. :-) > > Nobody seems to have mentioned CamBam. It has a bit of a learning > curve, but it has a ton of power for it's price. > http://www.cambam.info/ > > At work we use Visual Mill. It's very easy to use if you are coming > from a solid model, so it works great with Alibre CAD (which is only > $197) or another solid modeler (Rhino, Solidworks, Pro-E). You can > also work from DXFs with it, but it loses many of it's benefits if you > do. Visual Mill starts at $1k, but it does have a pretty good feature > set for the price. http://www.mecsoft.com/
I tried cambam but found the free version very buggy, the non free version seems to be much more solid, I would properly buy it if it was not that there sales website is down.. Pro/E has a build in g-code generator, compatible with EMS, or at least for the 3 axis what I have been using so far. It's extremely powerful and modifies the G-code even after the model has been changed, parametric to the power!!! It's does have some learning curve though, but you benefit from if if you make the same part in different configurations (sizes or family tables). Ries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
