Re: [Emc-users] CNC machining setup cards

[Ron Buck]

… chiming in on the native Apple Si version. The speed improvement is night and 
day difference. I’m on a M1 Max notebook and currently working with a large 
assembly imported from SW. Even small changes were getting slow enough to get 
up and stretch while it was thinking. No hint of even a pause so far with the 
insider release on anything.

Ron


> On Jul 12, 2023, at 4:08 AM, gene heskett  wrote:
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> On 7/12/23 02:23, Chris Albertson wrote:
 On Jul 11, 2023, at 5:42 PM, gene heskett  wrote:
>>> 
>>> ... I'll bet real money that OpenSCAD is easier to learn.
>> Openscad is certainly easy for some simple things but impossible for others. 
>>  Try making a cordless power tool in OpenScad.
>> But in Fusion a power tool is used as an intermediate-level tutorial 
>> project.  The screenshot below is something a person could learn to make 
>> after some weeks of study.  I doubt anyone would even attempt it in 
>> OpenScad.   Then assuming you do make the OpenScad model, could you make 
>> changes in real-time as the client pointed out changed he would like
> You have an excellent point there Chris, were I to attempt that today, I 
> would probably be several weeks writing it for linuxcnc as that looks much 
> easier to do in a subtractive format. Either way, I at my age, would find it 
> difficult to make customer requested mods. 60 years younger with my better 
> memory then it would have been much easier.
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Re: [Emc-users] Solidworks for $40.

[Ron Buck]

I have a F360 license - single seat locked in at $350 per year. List price is 
$495. AD seems to run promotions once or twice a year. Right now you can get it 
for ~$300. Less I think if you buy 3 years upfront. What I remember from the 
ads I’m getting.

Remember F360 (and I’m pretty sure the SW deal) are subscriptions; they can 
(and do) change the rules from time to time. I certainly have my issues AD, but 
I’m a reasonably happy user. I bought the single seat a year or 2 ago even 
though I’m a home user, because you had to know they were going to keep adding 
further restrictions to the free license.

For some, that won’t buy a single good bottle of Whiskey, but for me at the 
moment its about 3. Remember: there are no bad whiskey’s, just different ones :)

Ron

> On Sep 17, 2020, at 10:36 AM, John Dammeyer  wrote:
> 
>> From: Eric Keller [mailto:keller...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: September-17-20 10:16 AM
>> Last time I checked, many years ago now, solidworks without simulations was
>> $4k.  They have sometimes not offered that split and it was $8k with the
>> simulations.  I feel like it hasn't gotten cheaper. Anyone have a recent
>> price?
>> Eric Keller
>> Boalsburg, Pennsylvania
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:13 PM John Dammeyer 
>> wrote:
>> 
 From: N [mailto:nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com]
 Watchout, if they discover you use it for anything commercial maybe they
>>> come and want the full fee.
>>> 
>>> What's the fee for small usage?  The key change they've made is the
>>> inability to export step or iges files to other CAD systems.  You have
>>> until January to save all your drawings in that format.
>>> 
>>> But how much per year does a license really cost?  Or to put it in a much
>>> more eloquent currency, how many bottles of good Scotch do you have to give
>>> up per year for it?
>>> 
>>> John Dammeyer
> 
> 
> Actually I was wondering more about Fusion360 per year.  If it's $50/month 
> then that's $600 per year and that's still less than I'm paying for the 
> combination of AlibreCAD and 4 axis AlibreCAM (MecSoft).
> 
> But, all I lose if I stop paying is upgrades and support.  The licence for 
> the two PCs (only one runs at a time) is indefinite.  So if I decided to stop 
> paying I can continue to use it until the PCs die.  Then transferring it will 
> probably require a new license.  That's what I liked about the USB dongles. 
> They were plugged into a USB to Ethernet device and although I was still 
> restricted to one unit active at a time I didn't need to move the dongles 
> around.
> 
> I worry that Fusion360, will lock up your files if you stop paying.
> 
> John
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Re: [Emc-users] Dropbox

[Ron Buck]

Go to stretch:(

Ron

> On Mar 9, 2019, at 10:48 AM, N. Christopher Perry  wrote:
> 
> I finally upgraded to 2.7 / Debian Wheezy and am trying to get Dropbox to 
> work on it.  When I install any of the packages from the Dropbox sight I 
> ether get dependency problems or after starting it the task crashes.  Anybody 
> got suggestions?
> 
> N. Christopher Perry
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