It's kind of self-fulfilling. You get 2.5 D jobs because you do 2.5 D jobs. If you could make the organic shape parts for a prosthetic hand you would get jobs making the organic shape parts for a prosthetic hand.
My use of this is at best a hobby/business I hope to pay for the tools I use. But what I noticed is that as I learn to do more things I actually start doing more things. That sounds almost silly but it is 100% true. On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 4:07 PM Marshland Engineering < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
