On 9/17/20 11:30 AM, dave engvall wrote:
Chris,
You might try Synergy, does the whole ball of wax. Not too expensive.
Takes time to learn. Parasolids based. 2D, 2.5D, 3D, wireframe,
solids, turning and probably something i missed. Unusual feature is
extrusion screws.
Runs on linux; will run on Windows but you lose a few features. Has a
30 day free demo.
https://www.webersys.com/
I used to use Synergy but changed to Fusion 360. I talked to Bob at
Weber Systems today and it is now down to just Him. While still
supports current customers he is encouraging those who need other
features to look elsewhere. He lost his Longtime cohort Larry a couple
or years ago but he is now retirement age. It was a long time UNIX
product but hasn't transitioned to 64 bit. He is running it under
Ubuntu 16.04 but had trouble with 18. I don't know if he would be
interested in passing the product on, but he hasn't updated since 2015.
As far a photoshop; gimp is pretty good but maybe not so easy to learn.
YMMV
Dave
On 9/16/20 12:15 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
No. I don't know of any CAM software for generating toolpaths for
lathes that runs on Linux.
The best 3D CAD that runs on Linux is https://www.onshape.com/. But
unlike
Fusion360, Onshape does not have the ability to generate toolpaths
unless
you get some 3rd party add-in software.
I have two computers here. An iMac for most things and a Linux based
16-core Xeon PC with nVidia GPU for robotics software development.
Onshape
on the Xeon is 10X faster than Fusion on my older iMac But I've not
figured out a good way to translate the Onshape models to g-code.
Gene suggests wring g-code by hand but that simply can't be done for
complex parts and even if one could do this there is no "proof" that
g-code I write is the same as what I designed in the CAD system.
One solution is running a virtual machine on the Linux PC, installing
Windows 10 on that and then Fusion360. But this requires a rarely
powerful Linux PC.
(At least as a minimum, a 4-core i7 with 16GB RAM and SSD.)
I've been a Linux user (both professional and at home) for a long
time and
before Linux existed, BSD UNIX and Solaris but then one day I wanted to
edit video and process images shot with an SLR. Adobe is the only
game in
town for professional-level media editing unless you consider Apple's
Final
Cut Pro X. None of this runs on Linux.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:38 PM R C <cjv...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/16/20 12:09 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
Fusion 360 can generate g-code for mills and lathes. It's free
even for
commercial use until you make $50K using it.
Fusion is a little bit like Freecad but is more complete and better
supported as you would expect of a product from Autodesk.
I have heard about that one. does it run on Linux too?
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 9:39 PM R C <cjv...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I have been using freecad for designing parts, and then milling
them on
a sherline mill, getting the hang of that a little bit.
I have a lathe too, that works with CNC linux, but noticed heard,
that
you can't really make parts, or g-codes, with it for a lathe.
What wold be a good choice for designing, simple, parts for a lathe,
that will create g-code for it?
thanks,
Ron
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