Only experience I have with alibre was when they were the new kid on the block, trying to compete with solidworks and their interface was almost as painful as freecad is now😆
Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer Order one of the coolest label makers on the market at http://labelworks.epson.com, use coupon code "theferalengineer" and receive 20% off of your order 🙂 On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:20 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > That FreeCAD subject has once again prompted me to ask how people are > using their CAD/CAM to generate G-Code. > > For the first time in about 10 years (or maybe more now) I've refused to > update my support for MecSoft Visual CAD/CAM because their response to my > question was _probably_never_. > > The question was: "When are you once again going to be able to import the > .AD_PRT files from AlibreCAD?" > > Way back AlibreCAM was VisualCAM from MecSoft and was integrated into > Alibre. They had some sort of falling out because Alibre is also no longer > interested in supporting VisualCAM stating that it's MecSoft that makes the > decision as to whether to integrate. I feel like it was a painful devorce… > > I'm stuck with using the 2020 version of AlibreCAM (with the occasional > error message) on the current version of AlibreCAD. I will tell Alibre > this year that I no longer feel the need to pay support after way more than > 16 years of support payments (I have drawings from 2006). > > From what I can see FreeCAD doesn't do CAM. I have no interest in using > Fusion360. Both Fusion360, FreeCAD and the VisualCAD user interface > confuse me. Just can't seem to learn them while I find AlibreCAD easy. > But then I could never really effectively use AutoCAD either which is why > Alibre was so great when it showed up. > > What is out there for CAM G-Code generation? Preferably integrated with > with the CAD package so one can go back and forth to tweak a drawing for > better CAM without having to start all over again with the CAD. > > Thanks > John > > > > > "ELS! Nothing else works as well for your Lathe" > Automation Artisans Inc. > www dot autoartisans dot com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
