If you use Alibre & CamBam, you should the Alibre-CamBam Bridge at
http://www.spiked3.com/Bridge.html.

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like a very useful addition.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Kenneth Lerman
<kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com> wrote:
> I'm also an Alibre user. Some years ago I got the free version of Alibre
> Express. I found it to be just what I needed -- until they "upgraded"
> it. Then it stopped supporting creation of two dimensional drawings from
> 3-D models.
>
> I recently bought the current version ($97 I think) before they required
> that you buy the one year maintenance. It is an excellent product. The
> free CAM version doesn't support 2-D profiling. The only output mode it
> seems to support is a raster scan where it moves up and down on the Z axis.
>
> It does support outputting DXF files. The free version of CAMBAM can
> input those files and generate just what I need. (I think that's the way
> I made the combination work -- it's been a while.)
>
> Ken
>
> On 3/23/2010 1:57 PM, Andy Pugh wrote:
>> On 23 March 2010 18:28, Stephen Wille Padnos<spad...@sover.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> Roland Jollivet wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I truly wish some company would bring out a 'real' CAD/CAM package at 1/5th
>>>> of the price and blow the others out the water.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well, someone actually did.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be going
>>> very well for them.
>>>
>>> I bought CadMax Solid Master<http://www.cadmax.com>  about 5 years ago.
>>> It's a real parametric solid modeling package, with a dynamic feature
>>> tree (much like SolidWorks), import/export of several formats (though
>>> unfortunately IGES costs extra), and fully associative sketches and
>>> prints.
>>>
>> Alibre is cheaper still and supports IGES without extra expense. All
>> it seems to lack is the ability to change dimensions in a drawing and
>> have the model change to match (and I am not completely sure that the
>> facility is missing, it might be I have not found it).
>>
>> I used AutoDesk Inventor all day, every day for a couple of years and
>> I have to confess that there are not a great number of Inventor
>> features missing from Alibre that I notice the lack of.
>>
>> The $197 / £89 version has a Demo version of the MecSoft CAM package
>> available, and I believe that there is a way to unlock it into a very
>> limited version (Alibre CAM Xpress) but I can't figure out how. The
>> Demo version doesn't output G-Code.
>>
>> I would certainly say that it is worth trying the 30 Day free trial
>> version of Alibre Design, it runs under VMWare on a Mac and probably
>> also under Wine in Linux.
>> After 30 days it reverts to the "Express" Version, but even that seems
>> perfectly usable, the main limits being 5 parts per assembly and no
>> Inventor/ProE import/export.
>>
>>
>
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