On 05/31/2011 03:03 AM, gene heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 03:09:57 AM Andy Howell did opine: > >> On 05/30/2011 07:52 PM, Igor Chudov wrote: >>> I am aware that this is a "can of worms". I will ask, nevertheless. >>> >>> I am becoming constrained by my approach of "just write G code for >>> anything I want". >>> >>> Is there an inexpensive CAD/CAM package that is EMC2 compatible, >>> designed to work with milling operation (I have a 4 axis mill). >>> >>> At this point I do not care if it is Windows or Linux based, although >>> I would prefer Linux. >> >> Igor, >> >> I've been playing with HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC. I'm quite new to > machining, >> cad/cam etc, so I can't comment on how it compares to other packages. I >> run it under Ubuntu. It works under windows as well. See >> http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/ >> >> Regards, >> >> Andy > >>From my POV, HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC for linux is a disaster as its several > versions (0.13) behind the windows issue (0.18) and missing stuff in > wholesale quantities. Using wine on this pclos box, heekscad for winderz > seems to run well and stably once you click through about 25 xml errors on > startup. But I have not been able to locate any beginner oriented > printable tutorials for it. A URL for that would be highly appreciated. >
Gene,
I built it from source, which is pretty straight forward. I did have to
fix some problems
in the EMC2.py script. Those changes are checked in. There are three different
EMC
'machines' defined. I fixed the firth first one, "EMC2 Controler'.
There are some docs and links under http://code.google.com/p/heekscnc/
I've found a number of tutorials on YouTube. It would be nice to have a
tutorial that took
something simple from a hand drawn sketch, into heekscnc, and then milled using
EMC2.
I ended up starting with HeeksCNC because I could not find any other open
source packages
that handled both the CAD and CAM aspects. QCad has a CAM option, but its not
free.
Being new to all this, its taking me awhile to figure out how all the pieces
fit together :)
Regards,
Andy
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