On Saturday 14 September 2013 10:24:55 Kent Reed did opine: > Trying to head off the inevitable flurry of followup messages, I should > note that DesignSpark says > > *"Operating Systems:* > Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 3 > Microsoft® Windows Vista™ > Microsoft® Windows 7 > Microsoft® Windows 8 > DesignSpark Mechanical is not supported on virtual platforms." > > I don't know if "is not supported" means "it won't work" or just "we > don't care enough to test". > > I use Windows when I must and Unix/Linux when I can so this is not a > problem for me but I know it will be for others. So be it. > > In any case, I have to wait a couple days to find out if the product > merits adding to my portfolio. > > Regards, > Kent > That's a bummer. There are no windoze machines on the premises here.
That leaves freecad, with a mile high vertical climb to use it because the docs aren't. Pretty eye candy yes. Tell you how, no. But what really un- impresses me about it is that after all this time (3-4 years now) that Dan Heeks has been putting his coding output into freecad, pulling HeeksCNC seems to not even be on his radar screen. Bottom line is that I can lay it out on paper, and write the gcode to do the admittedly simple stuff I can imagine, and make it, long before I have succeeded in making even a wireframe of whats in my head. I just updated to the last incremental release, built yesterday and the single most annoying missing feature to using its builtin browser to look at the docs, is that 2 years progress at what looks to be a fairly capable program, it STILL doesn't have a "back" button! By the time I have started a project, and would like to follow along one of the demo's by using the docs as a tutorial, the only way to get back to your project is to quit freecad, restart it, and reload your project. By then, getting back to the step you were on, and what the docs said have both been forgotten. Hello, anybody home? I can see the lights are on. There is a link to "printable" docs that are not unless you want to do 1 to 3 pages at a time, of a subject that probably needs a ream of double sided paper. But those docs are a version behind, 0.13 is most of 2 years old now, and yesterdays build claims to be 0.14. So the close button gets clicked again, having wasted an hour without accomplishing a thing. And I have several eagle src'ed pcb's to make, accessory & upgrade stuff for the coco's, starting with a larger pallet to hold the boards, and while Highland Hardware in Hotlanta still has the raw micarta to make them with, but compared to 2 or 3 years ago's product, this stuff is crap. No formica like facing at all, cold flows measurably. You can see it on a dial indicator 1/2" from a hold down clamp. 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) My web page: <http://gene.homelinux.net:6309/gene> should be up! Mike: "The Fourth Dimension is a shambles?" Bernie: "Nobody ever empties the ashtrays. People are SO inconsiderate." -- Gary Trudeau, "Doonesbury" A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/22/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=64545871&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
