Circa 1999 Purdue University's CAD-LAB developed some CAD/CAM software for Windows, Macintosh and Linux I'd like to obtain copies of. The main reason I'd like to get that is because some of it was written specifically for a proLIGHT PLM2000. The tutorial showing how to use the software is very interesting - but without the software it only makes me look grimly at the old DOS program and wish for LCNC support for the PLM2000. (Or support from *any* somewhat modern machine control software.)
Being open source, recovering it should be of some benefit at large for CAD/CAM development. archive.org saved the website and some of the documentation but not the software due to their FTP server having a robots'txt file at the root level. Since then the university has completely altered their public FTP (what little there is of it) and nothing from then is there. The functions of the CAD-LAB have been spread around the engineering department. It doesn't matter if a robots.txt expressly permits spiders, crawlers and archivers (which Purdue's did), archive.org will not save anything from any site or server at or below the level where a robots.txt file is. As for getting G-code that works on the PLM2000, I've successfully used Heeks with the LCNC post process option, have to comment out the G43 it insists upon inserting and I have to edit the feed rate, which for some reason it always sets at 4 IPM no matter what I select in the GUI. Eh, it's a work in progress and only cost $15 for the no-nag version. At least I can cut metal in fancy shapes! :) The major difference between the Animatics and Fanuc controllers Light Machines used is Animatics defaults to incremental arc centers (put a $ in the NC file to switch to absolute) while the later Fanuc model defaults to absolute arc centers (add a % to the NC file to switch to incremental). --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
