On 10/08/13 18:08, Charles Buckley wrote: > The paradigm is shifting also when you get to 3D printers. They want > appliance and appliance like behavior. Zero interest in becoming > machinists.
This applies to hackerspaces too. Most hackerspaces, and even quite a few hobby users now have serious milling machines like a Tormach or 'baby' milling machines like a Fireball. These need to work like an appliance without requiring someone who _really_ knows what they're doing to configure the software. It might be practical to have a LinuxCNC guru setup and configure the retrofit of a room sized chunk of iron, but that doesn't apply to the mini-mills and desktop CNC hardware that is becoming common. -- Charles Steinkuehler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
