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. >> >> > > -- > Kenneth Lerman > 55 Main Street > Newtown, CT 06470 > 203-426-3769 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
