On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote: ... snip > I would not mind a $200 price range for a well supported > >product. > > Neither would I if I thought I could get that much use out of it > although that would push the limit since I'm retired & on SS these > days.
Even on a hobby basis, this could be recouped with a few runs of a specialty part. I just wish I could think of a part to make that would sell. Years back I made some gland nuts/bearing mounts for a 19 o'something Spad. They were fun to make, but there isn't much call for these on eBay. ... snip > So you obviously have a registered copy. How much, or what was the > price range? My mind is like a steel trap trying to hold water. I bought it quite a few years ago and can't remember what I paid. ... snip > No idea Kirk. Those 'cad' programs that are open source, seem mainly > to have been written by folks intending to make pretty eye candy for > the monitor than in pursuing a format that can be readily converted > into a solid model that a 'cam' program can trace and make into > machine instructions. > > Or at least that's how it seems to me. I agree, but I wonder if enough of the basic functions are there and reusable? ... snip > Given the complexity of that, my guess is that it probably will never > be done as purely free software, so we may as well resign ourselves to > making the hat they pass a little heavier on its way by us. The > question then becomes, can they do it for what we can collectively > pay? I am hoping that an openCAM project can be broken into small enough parts that each part would be easy for a small group to complete. I recall from someone talking about the energy problem, (paraphrasing) "it's worth pursuing ten percent solutions, because if you have ten of them, you've solved the problem". Kirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
