Originally Posted by
bpereira@comcas
It sound like you know the steps you have to take to get from drawing to part.
You are going to need at least two pieces of software. You already have the first covered with AutoCad. .....
TurboCNC is only for machine control and has no CAM capabilities and it will only run well under Windows98 in DOS mode. It is free though.
Thanx man , I'm thinking I'm going to run Turbo CNC for now and maybe invest in Mach 3 at some point. My main Idea is I want to use my old P166/64MB/2 Gb Toshiba Libretto laptop as my Machine Controller. and dos is real appealing to me right now for stability reasons.and autocad 12 for dos runs real niceon it and so does autocad 2000 in win 98. I also just picked up a 486/66 P.O.S. touch screen all in one computer I'd like to try to use , agan bringing me back to dos. MOST if not ALL of my drawing will probaly be done on my Vista Laptop or Win 2K Desktop in ACAD 2002. I'm gona try Enroute to generate my tool paths, but I'm open to other ideas My biggest question is while I'm stuck in the learning curve I can come up with thousands of things TO draw, like clipart. so when working in AutoCADD, do I want to do 2D or 3D Drawings?
do I want to do solid models or wireframes?
What are the rules for doing drawings ?
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