I studied up the G-code of my Isel Machines and is now ready to write a translator that can work with EMC pretty easily and finaly move everything over to Linux, by means of the intermediate translator I wrote. That part is sorted out.
The remaining task is to replace the Windows Cad program. I am using BobCad at the moment on windows which is a truly *painful application* and overly complicated CAD program riddled with ambiguity and a workflow only the programmer understands. My question is, is there a simple 2-d 3-d cad program with DXF or such output I can feed into EMC for toolpath generation? A CAD program I REALLY like is "emachineshop" as it is at last a 2-d 3-d cad program anyone can understand. "http://www.emachineshop.com/audio/07-menu-job-order-help/video.html"; Unfortunately it does not export any DXF and such so you must use it to buy at emachineshop. Is there any CAD similar and as clear to use available on Linux? I just dont have the time and energy to fight through Autocad and even worse, LinuxCad to do something simple in 2-D. Emachineshop is about 100% a good match for what I am doing. Thanks Lrv. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
