CAM software

["Fred Zinsli" <fred-at-shooter.co.nz>]

Now that we have managed to resolve our hardware problems, and it looks like 
EMC is now up and running, we wish to know about CAM software.

We are currently using Rhino3D, but we find this somewhat cumbersome to use.
We found that with ACAD 14, you almost had to be a rocket scientist to draw 
in 3D.

We have a 4 axis Drill/Mill and now want to take our project from paper to PC.

Any comments would be most welcome.

We have no preference as to platform (Linux/PC), but we need to be aware of 
the limitations of our Linux box. P133, 48Mb RAM, 3Gb HDD, 2Mb Video. Not a 
strong machine, but adequate to rum EMC on. Our development machine is an 
old Duron 800 with 1Gb RAM, 64Mb Video & 40Gb HDD. So this machine is the 
preferred CAM machine. No, the Linux box is stand alone, no networking is 
envisaged at this time.

Obviously we don't wish to spend a fortune on the software, but if this is 
what it takes, we will investigate it.

I look forward to your valuable comments.

Regards


Fred Zinsli



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