On 19/09/15 04:44, John Dammeyer wrote: > My war story is 5 versions of TurboCAD before I finally realized I was > caught into the updates were really bug fixes under the presentation of > improvements and nothing worked right. I started with Version 1. Stopped > buying it at Version 5 and I think at one point they were at version 12 or > something.
I'm still on 15 ... but only had 12 before that ... after jumping off the AutoCAD roundabout. > Autocad for me was always a disaster. Just couldn't get my head around it. My AutoCAD 2.5 dongle surfaced a while back and we used that up to Release13 but with cash flow tight and I think a £600 bill for next 'bug fix' it was time to get of the roundabout. £200 for TurboCAD Pro proved a good investment at the time. People have mentioned 'cross-platform, and we have Eclipse for code development and Libreoffice for the rest of the paperwork which have been more than capable across all platforms for many years now. The likes of FreeCAD and KiCAD could just as easily be run on windows, so perhaps the question is 'Why not a windows version of LinuxCNC?' I'm thinking as more of a replacement for the likes of USBCNC using co-processors, but the co-processor could well be a beagleboard or something similar running LinucCNC in textmode and using the 'PC' for the graphics? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
