On Tuesday 01 December 2015 17:11:56 Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On 12/1/2015 8:36 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I had great hopes for Heekscad/Heekscnc 3 or 4 years ago, but that > > project was never finished, he went to work on freecad and AFAIK the > > gcode generator was never ported to freecad, which itself seems to > > have faded to obscurity in the dusts of time. Releases are being > > made, last in Sept. of this year, but if it was useful, I expect I > > would have seen some discussion of it here. > > > > The copy's of both I installed here, on a previous install, seemed > > to have more bugs than a 10 day old carcass in August. Could have > > been PEBKAC too. :( Either way I could not get my head around it. > > According to the web page for freecad, a CAM module is currently in > > the planning stage. And that page was last updated in July 2014. No > > promises there. > > HEEKS was just recently updated to 1.1 from 1.0, with quite a list of > bug fixes, but printing is still useless. > > The default settings for the output work with the DOS software for my > PLM2000, except for one code it puts at the beginning which the mill > either doesn't support or HEEKS isn't formatting to suit the mill. I > just comment it out and the code works.
Humm, sounds like maybe I should take another look at it then. Thanks for the heads up, Gregg. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
