well,
I don't expect companies to give me stuff for free of course, they produce software for a market, to make money, I am just not in that market. I read that a license, per year, if not mistaken, is $495, and you can use it for free for a year (1st year ?). That is of course a good deal, for a machine shop.
I am not in that market, hobbyist here, and a beginning one, so yeah $495 a year, at this point not something I'd consider. In my case it would probably come down to $200 $300 for the 2 parts I might make with it, a year.
I am using Freecad, and for the mill it does what I want it to do, and probably much more. It seems though that for some reason it is easier to find software that can do things on a mill, but not on a lathe.
On 2/3/21 9:45 AM, Bruce Layne wrote:
This is my annual warning that AutoDesk isn't The Benevolent Software Company, and they aren't in business to give you free stuff because you're so awesome. AutoDesk has a history of offering free or low cost software to entice users into investing their time to learn the software (this may be the highest cost of ownership), and once you have tens or hundreds of designs in their proprietary CAD format, they decide to unilaterally change the deal and you're trapped. They did this to me with AutoSketch, a couple of decades ago. I had hundreds of hours wasted and many designs were abandoned because I couldn't export them. AutoSketch was never a serious product. It was used to migrate users to AutoCAD LT, and then to AutoCAD. FreeCAD doesn't do everything you might want, but I've been very happy with it and I'm grateful to the open source programmers who make it possible. If all you want is 2D or 2.5D CAM for LinuxCNC, it may be all you need in its current state. FreeCAD is still under development, so it may have the features you need by the time you need them, but that's a risky proposition with free open source software. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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