A very interesting discussion. I have delved into Fusion 360 plus a number of other packages but I still revert back to Turbocad as it is quick and does what I want. All the work I get is 2.5D. If I was making assemblies, then 3D would be great but I make parts for companies and I normally just use the PDF and program my machine with conversational programming. Sometimes, I get a DXFs. Just done a $3000 order with no CAD or CAM package. The longest program I needed in my machine was 9 lines long. Probably took 5 minutes to hand program and test. (Forgot to take a photo of the finished parts.) As mentioned before, GCode runs every line and ends up being a lot of code. In the conversation mode, I use subroutines. I can drill 100 holes with 2 lines of code. If I want to change the feed rate, I only have to change one line.
There are some very good engineers on this forum and I was wondering if any see any merit in making a system that runs conversation mode almost exclusively. Sure it will be able to run GCode, but conversational will be its main focus. As I have said before, to train someone to use conversation is really easy. This project is not for all types of work but I make a living out of making simple parts. If you are interested, email me off line and I'll take it from there. Cheers Wallace. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
