Did not follow and did not immidiately find anything about Freecad. I tried for some simple things and to design parts seems to work rather well but adding dimensions, drawing views, FEM and CAM is maybe not very good.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:56:16 -0700 Chris Albertson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:54 PM Marcus Bowman < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 24 Jul 2018, at 07:33, Chris Albertson wrote: > > > > > What I want and am looking for is a kind of conversational system > > > where I can walk up to the mill and use it for something simple with no > > > need for g-code. I'm going back and forth on what would be best. > > > > > > > I use a library of self-written general-purpose programs for the everyday > > common tasks. These have a parameter block at the start where I can quickly > > modify sizes and speeds, so that the program can be modified in the editor > > for the task on the mill at the time. > > > > That seems like a good way to start. I could then have a hand held device > that allows to enter the parameters. Text enters means a trip through a > computer. But a hand wheel is actually not a bad way to enter numbers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
