On Friday 15 February 2008, Andrew Ayre wrote: >I worked out a free set of tools for parts modeling and gcode >generation. The details are here: > >http://www.britishideas.com/2007/11/19/part-design-tools-and-workflow > >The downside is that you need to have Windows as well as Linux. > No winderz here...
>Andy > >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. >> >> 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
