I didn't know that they had a free trial. I'll have to try that out. $300/year is very cheap if you are making money with it.
Sheetcam is good for a low cost, affordable package that you can just buy once. For flatwork like Plasma cutting or water jet where you need to nest a number of different parts; Pronest is good and fast to create a cutting path. I think that Hypertherm bought them up. I have used it at a customers site and I tweaked the post to make it work with LinuxCNC. I think its list price is about $3K but if you do a lot of flat plate cutting with various shapes it could pay for itself quickly in material costs saved. Its nesting routines are good and it keeps track of cut sheets and the material left on the cut sheets so they can be recut with different shapes. I had previously used mynesting.com with Sheetcam to cut nested parts but Pronest on a local computer is a lot more effective time wise. Dave On 5/11/2016 11:33 PM, Bruce Layne wrote: > > On 05/11/2016 09:57 PM, Andy Pugh wrote: >>> On 11 May 2016, at 20:26, Erik Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> So its web based, but $300 won't buy you maintenance for any other equally >>> powerful cam. >> It costs less than that for hobby and startup use. And I think that their >> definition of "startup" is quite generous. (Less than $100,000 per year) > I told my brother he could try Fusion360 for $300 a year, or less for > hobby or small business use, but I was unable to find the lower cost > option. It looks like AutoDesk has captured enough of the market that > it's now $300 per year... > > http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/try-buy > > ...unless you are a student or teacher, in which case it's free. > > http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/students-teachers-educators > > If anyone knows of the lower price option for a hobbyist who is not a > student or teacher, I'd be very interested on my brother's behalf. I'm > still committed to FreeCAD or OpenSCAD for my piddly designs, although > mostly I just write my simple G code by hand. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who > bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM > restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the > apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
