Fusion 360 also runs natively on a Mac. Thaddeus Waldner
________________________________ From: Dave Matthews <n36...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 1:50 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Done with that panel code, with one exception Lars Christensen has a bunch of Fusion 360 videos on YouTube. He works for Autodesk and has an absolute beginner series. It is how I learned basic Fusion 360. Dave On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 2:47 PM Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Its hard to beat this price for 3D Cad/Cam which is free for hobbyist > and startups making less than 100K per year. > https://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/fusion-360-for-hobbyists > > It requires Window, but its free! > > I know of a shop that is using Inventor now and they are moving a lot of > their work to Fusion 360. > The cost is a fraction of the Inventor price per seat. Something like > $800 per year for a commercial business. > > I used it a couple of years ago to do some lathe parts and it was really > easy. The parts were designed, and G code generated in a day, and this > was the first time we ever used it. Mill code is more difficult than > lathe code typically, but still, one day. There was a lathe post that > worked perfectly with LinuxCNC. > > I understand that they have improved it a lot in the last two years as well. > > Dave > > On 12/20/2018 12:46 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:19 AM Les Newell <les.new...@fastmail.co.uk> > > wrote: > > > >>> Can your cad/cam program do that in 300 LOC? 100k LOC maybe. > > Who knows. No one EVER reads the g-code or counts the lines. I have some > > files with a few million lines. > > > > But here is another question: Can you hand code a DB9 cut out in less than > > 6 minutes? THAT is what matters. > > > > And can you hand code a compound curve, like a small part for a human-like > > prosthec hand? > > > > > > > > > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
