On 24 July 2018 at 07:31, Marcus Bowman <marcus.bow...@visible.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> For 3D CAD, I use Inventor, but that has no output for CNC, so I will > probably migrate to Fusion360 next, when I get time to familiarise myself > with that. There is CAM for inventor. In fact the very same CAM as Fusion. There are three levels of it, all the way up to very fancy 5 axis. https://www.autodesk.com/products/hsm/overview The free version is OK, but rather bizarrely a little less advanced than the version in free Fusion. So I quite often design in Inventor than export the model to Fusion. (And sometimes I just use Fusion all the way, as that runs native on my Mac whereas the graphics in the VM on the Mac that runs Inventor are a little sluggish) I am not sure I would recommend buying Inventor, though. I get it for free as a perk of the day job :-) It is better than Fusion, I think, but not by _that_ much. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
