Oh I forgot to even mention Cambam. I have been using it for awhile now. Many of the parts I have posted photos of on the IRC were made with it. It is quite powerful and even has some decent 3d toolpaths in it. For simple 2.5d stuff it will do about anything you might want. It does not have built in tapping cycles unfortunately which In my view is a huge hole but it does have some plugins that allow threadmilling and some other interesting features. The best part about it is what is already there works quite well and there are some decent lead in and lead out options. The program does not have built in simulation but they sell a package that bundles a cnc simulator program with it that works decent. Or you can download CNC simulator pro free demo and use that but it is picky about setup I found. Having used Mastercam quite a bit in local shops I worked in there is no comparison of course but look at the price difference LOL.. I have a friend I worked with that still works there and he sometimes comes over and we run parts he programmed in a Haas modified post in mastercam and they actually work with little bit of editing. We have run like a half dozen different parts programs he paid me to do here on the Cincinatti VMC retrofit I have and other than the rigid tapping codes which are differently worded and use G84 instead of G33.1 they would work too. For the money tho Cambam is pretty sweet and will allow you to do a lot of stuff you would normally have to pay a lot more money for otherwise. I wish there were more youtube tutorials about their 3d toolpath programming but there are a few that give you the gist of things. Peace
Pete On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:03 AM, John Alexander Stewart <[email protected] > wrote: > Andy and others; > > 1) I run CamBam on my OSX machine - had to install a MONO framework, but it > works. (found the instructions in the cambam forum) > > The latest Linux release of CamBam is great - it runs on Ubuntu 14.04 > really well - the previous release had some MONO framework issues. > > 2) I did use dxf2gcode, but I do find CamBam much easier to use for more > complex 2D parts. So, I purchased CamBam. I do have some usage examples in > my blog for anyone interested - see below for URL. > > 3) I did some engraving by opening a jpg file in LinuxCNC - worked great! > > 4) I did write cylinder-triangle intersection tests for a 3D viewer that I > did (Open Source, even Apple distributed it for a while) and when run on > the GPU they run really fast - it would be great for 3D tool path > generation, but I'll let others do that. > > > I did put some stuff on my "blog" about engraving, but I can't give a > direct link to the posting, firewall issues... but the blog is > http://cnc-for-model-engineers.blogspot.com and it should be easy to find > as the engraving was done recently. > > (the blog is focused towards those with less experience than those on this > email list, so do not expect nose-breaking technical algorithms, etc) > > JohnS. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Pete Matos A and N Precision and Fabrication Maryville, Tennessee 865-236-8996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
