None of these are Open Source, and non work natively with Linux, but since those requirements weren't mentioned in your question, only in the notes you linked to, I'll ignore them in my response. :-)
Nobody seems to have mentioned CamBam. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it has a ton of power for it's price. http://www.cambam.info/ At work we use Visual Mill. It's very easy to use if you are coming from a solid model, so it works great with Alibre CAD (which is only $197) or another solid modeler (Rhino, Solidworks, Pro-E). You can also work from DXFs with it, but it loses many of it's benefits if you do. Visual Mill starts at $1k, but it does have a pretty good feature set for the price. http://www.mecsoft.com/ Alibre also offers Alibre CAM, which is based on Visual Mill. Unfortunately, by most accounts Alibre CAM is buggier than the Standalone Visual Mill. Alibre also charges for Maintenance, and I believe Visual Mill does not, so in the end Visual Mill works out to be quite a bit cheaper. http://www.alibre.com/products/ac.asp On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Karl Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > What are people using to generate tool paths? > > I dug into this a few years back and put my notes here: > > http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/CAD_CAM#Linux_friendly_CAD_CAM_packages > > I've not found usable Open-source software - so I'm looking for something > affordable that works. > > Can anyone compare bobcat with synergy? > > ,.,. > > I'm also interested in getting contacts from EMC users in the Lawrence - > Topeka - Kansas city area - > reply off list.. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Karl Schmidt EMail [email protected] > Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com > 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 > Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 > > What is, is; > What was, was; > What might have been; never will be. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
