No. I don't know of any CAM software for generating toolpaths for lathes that runs on Linux.
The best 3D CAD that runs on Linux is https://www.onshape.com/. But unlike Fusion360, Onshape does not have the ability to generate toolpaths unless you get some 3rd party add-in software. I have two computers here. An iMac for most things and a Linux based 16-core Xeon PC with nVidia GPU for robotics software development. Onshape on the Xeon is 10X faster than Fusion on my older iMac But I've not figured out a good way to translate the Onshape models to g-code. Gene suggests wring g-code by hand but that simply can't be done for complex parts and even if one could do this there is no "proof" that g-code I write is the same as what I designed in the CAD system. One solution is running a virtual machine on the Linux PC, installing Windows 10 on that and then Fusion360. But this requires a rarely powerful Linux PC. (At least as a minimum, a 4-core i7 with 16GB RAM and SSD.) I've been a Linux user (both professional and at home) for a long time and before Linux existed, BSD UNIX and Solaris but then one day I wanted to edit video and process images shot with an SLR. Adobe is the only game in town for professional-level media editing unless you consider Apple's Final Cut Pro X. None of this runs on Linux. On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:38 PM R C <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/16/20 12:09 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > > Fusion 360 can generate g-code for mills and lathes. It's free even for > > commercial use until you make $50K using it. > > > > Fusion is a little bit like Freecad but is more complete and better > > supported as you would expect of a product from Autodesk. > > > > I have heard about that one. does it run on Linux too? > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 9:39 PM R C <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> > >> I have been using freecad for designing parts, and then milling them on > >> a sherline mill, getting the hang of that a little bit. > >> > >> > >> I have a lathe too, that works with CNC linux, but noticed heard, that > >> you can't really make parts, or g-codes, with it for a lathe. > >> > >> > >> What wold be a good choice for designing, simple, parts for a lathe, > >> that will create g-code for it? > >> > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> > >> Ron > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
