Gene You might consider Synergy from Weber systems. It's not free after 30 days and it does not run like a drawing program but it will do solid modeling or 3d or 2.5d. It really is intended to be a manufacturing cad/cam system.
I don't own stock in Weber but I know all the really great folk there. There is a deb that will run on the EMC Ubuntu CD. And a generic EMC post. Rayh On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 16:54 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Giving up on the freebie qcad cuz its pure 2d, I looked around with google > for > something that supposedly could do 3d, and found brlcad. > > I just unpacked the 70 some megabyte version 7.10.4 prebuilt x86-32 tarball & > moved its base directory to someplace I can add to the $PATH, and ran it. > Pretty primitive interface cuz its universal. Possibly prettyable if I tell > it where x lives. > > However it apparently has its own file format, called a .g format. > Or .gif, .jpeg and no doubt one or two other formats. Looking at a .g file, > it appears to be a text format, but $00 filled into std sized data blocks. > > Has anyone ever used it for parts design? And if so, how did you convert .g > stuff to gcode? > > Or am I barking up yet another wrong tree with no raccoons or bears in it? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
