On Friday 15 February 2008, Ray Henry wrote: >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. > I couldn't get the deb to run, glibc version miss-match.
>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 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Mal: (looking at Saffron, shocked) "Whoa, hey... flesh..." --Episode #6, "Our Mrs Reynolds" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
