For those interested in Gcode generation from Blender, the script has been
updated and the link now works on the wiki page:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?GcodeGenerator
-Tom
On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Tom Easterday wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On
On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Sven Wesley wrote:
2010/3/23 Bernhard Kubicek bernhard.kubi...@gmail.com
it already exists.
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?GcodeGenerator
however I never took the time to learn blender.
greetings,
I'm also an Alibre user. Some years ago I got the free version of Alibre
Express. I found it to be just what I needed -- until they upgraded
it. Then it stopped supporting creation of two dimensional drawings from
3-D models.
I recently bought the current version ($97 I think) before they
If you use Alibre CamBam, you should the Alibre-CamBam Bridge at
http://www.spiked3.com/Bridge.html.
I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like a very useful addition.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Kenneth Lerman
kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com wrote:
I'm also an Alibre user. Some years ago I got
Hi
I bought Rhino and importantly it is only 3D surface modeling software
where nurbs is a part. NURBS let you grab point and drag it and it change
whole surface. It is interesting option.
No, actually the $5k version of Pro-E does include 2.5D CAM according
to the website. No idea how
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote:
Hi
I bought Rhino and importantly it is only 3D surface modeling software
where nurbs is a part. NURBS let you grab point and drag it and it change
whole surface. It is interesting option.
Blender is a powerful modeling app that
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote:
Hi
I bought Rhino and importantly it is only 3D surface modeling software
where nurbs is a part. NURBS let you grab point and drag it and it change
whole surface. It is interesting option.
Blender is a powerful modeling
it already exists.
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?GcodeGenerator
however I never took the time to learn blender.
greetings,
bernhard
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote:
2010/3/23 Bernhard Kubicek bernhard.kubi...@gmail.com
it already exists.
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?GcodeGenerator
however I never took the time to learn blender.
greetings,
bernhard
Perfect, then there really _is_ a free option that can be used under Linux!
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Sven Wesley wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote:
Hi
I bought Rhino and importantly it is only 3D surface modeling
software
where nurbs is a part. NURBS let you grab point and drag it and it
change
whole surface. It is
2010/3/23 Ries van Twisk e...@rvt.dds.nl
I tried using blender, but could never really be productive on it,
it might have something to do with the way I think, because I have seen
some awesome project done with it, most non-mechanical though...
What I need in a design tool is parametric,
someone wrote
Purchasing Synergy is simple. Just contact Weber Systems, let them know
you are interested, and our applications engineers will take it from
there.
They will make sure that you get exactly the kind of installation,
setup, support package, and software that is best for you and
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Bernhard Kubicek wrote:
it already exists.
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?GcodeGenerator
Most appetizing, and would prompt me to learn blender. Unforch, it appears
all the download links are 404 to FF3.6.2.
Other links seem to be good, except what little
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Sven Wesley wrote:
2010/3/23 Bernhard Kubicek bernhard.kubi...@gmail.com
it already exists.
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?GcodeGenerator
however I never took the time to learn blender.
greetings,
bernhard
Perfect, then there really _is_ a free
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Sven Wesley wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote:
Hi
I bought Rhino and importantly it is only 3D surface modeling
software
where nurbs is a part. NURBS let you grab point and drag it
On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Sven Wesley wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote:
Hi
I bought Rhino and importantly it is only 3D surface modeling
software
where
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Sven Wesley wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote:
Hi
I bought Rhino and importantly it
On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Sven Wesley wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM,
camexpert is the advanced qcad, where you can export gcode. But it does
not support cutter radius compensation, nor pocketing by itself.
There is some optimization of paths;
Manually reordering of things is not working well for me.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Gene Heskett
Gotta agree. Pricing is one of my pet banes. Try find the price of SW,
Autocad or similar package on the net. They want all sorts of details first.
Crikey, one can drive past showrooms all day seeing the price of cars which
start at the order of 3 x as much. So why the secret.
I truly wish some
On 23 March 2010 18:28, Stephen Wille Padnos spad...@sover.net wrote:
Roland Jollivet wrote:
I truly wish some company would bring out a 'real' CAD/CAM package at 1/5th
of the price and blow the others out the water.
Well, someone actually did. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be going
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Sven Wesley wrote:
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 12:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ries van Twisk wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Sven Wesley wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:41 AM, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote:
Hi
I bought Rhino and importantly it is only 3D surface modeling
software
On Mar 23, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
snip
Thanks Ries.
The payed version is a bit better on a usability level, but I could
simply
save as a DXF and use it with one of the free and some closed source
CAM solutions.
Ries
I couldn't find a DXF convertor that actually made
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Bernhard Kubicek wrote:
camexpert is the advanced qcad, where you can export gcode. But it does
not support cutter radius compensation, nor pocketing by itself.
There is some optimization of paths;
Manually reordering of things is not working well for me.
And I tend to
Hello!
In my attempts to implement 5 axis waterjet cutting machine i have
come to an issue of finding CAM software to be used for G-code
creation.
So I have several questions:
1) can anyone suggest a 5 axis CAM program for waterjet, laser, plasma
or any other cutting technology, where material
I just got an unsolicited offer from VX for $95 Innovator Lite
http://vxstore.vx.com/product/vx-innovator-lite-48.cfm
(you have to ask them for a promotion code, off the regular price $495)
Is anyone familiar with this one? Is it any good? What are the
limitations of the Lite version?
Hi
I think Pro-E for $5K is only designer and will not generate any g-code.
Pro-e Manufacturing is total different and only Pro-E manyfacturing
generates g-code and it may cost around $15.K for Mill only.
i may be wrong, need call to PTC directly
There are Pro-E Mechanical for model stresses
And of course, Freemill at Mecsoft... (maybe already mentioned)
http://www.mecsoft.com/freemill.shtml
Unless you are doing work that has specific requirements, aim for CAD
products that generate, and CAM that import .stl files. They are simple
triangle files, versatile, and you can usually
No, actually the $5k version of Pro-E does include 2.5D CAM according
to the website. No idea how functional it is, but it's better than
nothing. Regardless, $5k is way out of my price range.
Rhino and MadCAM do look nice, when I get some spare time I plan on
taking a look at the demos. I just
On 22 March 2010 00:17, Mike Payson mikepay...@gmail.com wrote:
Alibre CAD (which is only $197)
Alibre CAD was $97 unsupported last time I looked, or £89 from the UK
distributor. But when I looked again yesterday the US price was $197
with 1 year support and included and no sign of an option
Hi Karl
What are people using to generate tool paths?
I'd like to and another recommendation (as fare as I can see it has not
been mentioned, jet): SprutCAM but the RussianCompany Sprut Technologies:
http://www.sprutcam.com
There website does not work with Firefox :-( but SprutCAM is really
To answer my own email, I just looked at Freemill and it's almost a total
waste of time. You can't do more than a single pass, and now it keeps on
crashing... Did'nt seem to allow me to use mm/min feed either, even though
the part was selected as metric.
I used Sprutcam a few years ago too, and
Thanks for the info - I've added it to :
http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/CAD_CAM#Linux_friendly_CAD_CAM_packages for
my reference, feel
free to add...
The little experience with bobCAD I know about convinced me to look for
something else - it would
make stupid indexing moves - no way to
At least in the US, Alibre very quietly changed their terms, so while
they still advertise it as costing $97, they require you to buy the
first year of maintenance at $100. Annoying, but considering that it
was $995 and I think $300 for maintenance for the same package not too
long ago (not
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:14:48 +0200, you wrote:
And of course, Freemill at Mecsoft... (maybe already mentioned)
http://www.mecsoft.com/freemill.shtml
Unless you are doing work that has specific requirements, aim for CAD
products that generate, and CAM that import .stl files. They are simple
SheetCam www.sheetcam.com isn't open source but it is pretty
reasonably priced and there is a Linux version as well as a Windows
version. The Linux version is a little out of date at the moment but the
Windows version runs well under Wine. I am working on an update to the
Linux version.
Les
2010/3/20 Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com
What are people using to generate tool paths?
I dug into this a few years back and put my notes here:
http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/CAD_CAM#Linux_friendly_CAD_CAM_packages
I've not found usable Open-source software - so I'm looking for
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:17:00 -0400, you wrote:
I had BobCad and it truly sucks.
It was a complete waste of money for us.
They sold it to us twice promising that it would just take a few small
edits to the G-code translator to get it to work with Isel machines.
After 4 months they still could not
No, but since no is not in their vocabulary anything is possible.
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 16:53 -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote:
ad...@mmri.us wrote:
I had BobCad and it truly sucks.
It was a complete waste of money for us.
They sold it to us twice promising that it would just take a few small
None of these are Open Source, and non work natively with Linux, but
since those requirements weren't mentioned in your question, only in
the notes you linked to, I'll ignore them in my response. :-)
Nobody seems to have mentioned CamBam. It has a bit of a learning
curve, but it has a ton of
On Mar 21, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Mike Payson wrote:
None of these are Open Source, and non work natively with Linux, but
since those requirements weren't mentioned in your question, only in
the notes you linked to, I'll ignore them in my response. :-)
Nobody seems to have mentioned CamBam. It
Ries,
Thanks for the recommendation. At $5k, Pro-E is pretty spendy for my
needs, but it looks like they do offer a non-commercial version for
$250. Might be worth considering.
On Mar 21, 2010, at 8:41 PM, Mike Payson wrote:
Ries,
Thanks for the recommendation. At $5k, Pro-E is pretty spendy for my
needs, but it looks like they do offer a non-commercial version for
$250. Might be worth considering.
What are people using to generate tool paths?
I dug into this a few years back and put my notes here:
http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/CAD_CAM#Linux_friendly_CAD_CAM_packages
I've not found usable Open-source software - so I'm looking for something
affordable that works.
Can anyone compare
trial of
Synergy for either windows or linux.
Dave
- Original Message -
From: Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:04 PM
Subject: [Emc-users] CAM solutions
What are people using to generate
Karl Schmidt wrote:
What are people using to generate tool paths?
I dug into this a few years back and put my notes here:
http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/CAD_CAM#Linux_friendly_CAD_CAM_packages
I've not found usable Open-source software - so I'm looking for something
affordable that
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 16:55 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Karl Schmidt wrote:
What are people using to generate tool paths?
I dug into this a few years back and put my notes here:
http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/CAD_CAM#Linux_friendly_CAD_CAM_packages
I've not found usable
I was able to get a copy of Dolphin Partmaster Pro through their Hobby link on
their website. I paid less than retail and will be running the software on a
Win7 x64 platform networked to my EMC2 platform in the shop. Just putting the
pieces together now. Anyone that is interested in Dolphin
I had BobCad and it truly sucks.
It was a complete waste of money for us.
They sold it to us twice promising that it would just take a few small
edits to the G-code translator to get it to work with Isel machines.
After 4 months they still could not translate to Isel and Bobcad was
worthless
There is a CAM program out there called EZCAM(
http://www.ezcam.com/web/index.htm#) I tried to use the EZCAM Express
Turn software (about $1000) and after about 8 hours of banging my head
against a wall I gave up.
The manual and documentation is terrible. I have worked with some
really
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