On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 06:59 -0500, Peter Skerda wrote: > Dear Friends, > > As a senior citizen I'm in need of some enlightment in this area.
We, the other SC's about, encourage folk like us to hang around. Most of the younger folk tolerate us too. If you find you have a bit of spare time, you might think about attending the www.cnc-workshop.com event next June. That get together is a good chance to test out the advice of others. You know what they say about opinions being like certain body parts -- we all have 'em. > For > example I currently have a small CNC Sherline BDI - EMC machine mill. > Here's the situation as best I can input it. This is my first attempt at > cnc. Been trying to find some good cost effective cad & cad/cam jewelry > design software that will give 3d & up to 4 axis design. I worked with some guys running Sherline mills with A axis rotaries at the Jewelery building in Chicago. They were designing on the flat (2.5d) in their MS (<-tm) software and had trouble posting the design to a proper rotary gcode. We found that if we swapped cables between the X and A axes and tweeked the number of pulses so that the design caused a complete rotation for the X extent of the drawing it would mill the wax just like it was drawn. Not only that but there were no more worries about the diameter of the ring blank. 360 is 360 regardless of the size of the blank you are cutting. > Come across more window based software than linux. I think our linux > community will eventually take care of this, maybe it has already but I > haven't discovered where??? right now I haven't much choice. > > Is there some way that these Windows programs can be made to run on the > EMC? I'd rather like linux but I'm afraid that I may have to go to a > windows base jewelry design program and have to go with another machine > controller. :-( I've heard of WINO or is It WINE. But I don't get it. > Any assistance or suggestions by this list would be very much appreciated. > > BTW it has been suggested that two pcs needed for system. One for the > design program & one for running the mill. Maybe a dual boot system > would work? Sure dual boot would do it but as easy as networking is these days, I'd dual machine. Over time you will get tired of waiting for the box to reboot, and you would reboot often. Rather than having two monitors, keyboards, and mice a KVM switch is a real space saver. Or you can run the other software nearly headless as long as you can figure out a way to VNC into it from the Linux machine. I've got several linux boxes here that I run in separate windows on a single display. That means that each is always up and ready to go. You can't put the jewelery software display right in the EMC's operating screen but you can put it right next to it. HTH Rayh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
