Hello, folks. I'm in the process of getting parts for a small CNC mill. I have
a Dell D610 laptop I'm hoping to use for running EMC2. I know there are issues
with some laptops.
Has anybody had experience with trying to run EMC2 on a D610?
Thanks!
-Pete
I am aware that this is a can of worms. I will ask, nevertheless.
I am becoming constrained by my approach of just write G code for anything
I want.
Is there an inexpensive CAD/CAM package that is EMC2 compatible, designed to
work with milling operation (I have a 4 axis mill).
At this point I
On 5/30/2011 8:20 PM, Peter Loron wrote:
Hello, folks. I'm in the process of getting parts for a small CNC mill. I
have a Dell D610 laptop I'm hoping to use for running EMC2. I know there are
issues with some laptops.
Has anybody had experience with trying to run EMC2 on a D610?
Thanks!
Thanks for the pointers. I'll give the live CD a shot tomorrow and definitely
add them to the wiki.
I'm going to be using stepper motors.
I actually have 5 of the D610 laptops...picked them up for free...the company
IT department was scrapping them.
-Pete
On May 30, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Kent A.
Peter,
I have a very old Dell Latitude laptop, so old I forgot the exact type :)
but I run EMC on top of it reliable and with very good latency numbers.
However, I had to make a little script that does two things:
1) Turn on the fans at full speed.
2) Turn of SMI (System Management Interrupt)
I've been satisfied with CamBam http://www.cambam.info/. It's only $150 and
it's
a well maintained product with an active user base. I don't think it does the
4th axis though.
From: Igor Chudov ichu...@gmail.com
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Ed, thanks. I am looking at it. Essentially, its limitation is that it
cannot do curvy shapes, right?
i
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Edward Bernard yankeelena2...@yahoo.comwrote:
I've been satisfied with CamBam http://www.cambam.info/. It's only $150
and it's
a well maintained product
It can generate toolpaths for curvy shapes in three dimensions, but it
cannot create curvy 3 dimensional models. So if you generate a 3d model in a
program that can export an STL (for example Autodesk's free 123d) you can
use CamBam's tools to generate the gcode to cut it. CamBam's 2.5D cad tools
Not sure what you mean by curvy shapes but it will do curves in either two
or
three dimensional work. (the majority of the work I do is 2d curves in wood) I
took a look on the CamBam forum and apparently it will do 4th axis work through
a work-around. Oh, and by the way, the developer has
Ed, for example, can this CamBam help me generate G code for making a mold
that is a half sphere removed from metal?
The 4th axis, I think, I can use mostly as an indexing axis.
i
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Edward Bernard
yankeelena2...@yahoo.comwrote:
Not sure what you mean by curvy
Yes, I believe it can though it's something I've not gotten into yet.
From: Igor Chudov ichu...@gmail.com
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Mon, May 30, 2011 11:06:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] No-kidding CAD/Cam
On 05/30/2011 07:52 PM, Igor Chudov wrote:
I am aware that this is a can of worms. I will ask, nevertheless.
I am becoming constrained by my approach of just write G code for anything
I want.
Is there an inexpensive CAD/CAM package that is EMC2 compatible, designed to
work with milling
Andy, ideally, I would like to hear an opinion of a seasoned user, who made
plenty of parts using a particular CAD/CAM package.
Many software projects look great upon the first initial impression. Later,
real life problems crop up and many of those promising projects end up in
the does not really
Igor,
look thru http://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue54/frost.html
for some (imo) more professional pay for products
and ask for a free limited time version of Medusa
http://www.cad-schroer.com/
these products are not easy to evaluate, since any powerful tool
usually has more primitives
and finding
I've been playing with HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC. I'm quite new to machining,
cad/cam etc, so I
can't comment on how it compares to other packages. I run it under Ubuntu. It
works under
windows as well. See http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/
slightly OT, but anyway:
everyone who feels
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