[automizer]

Hello all, recently I have become lets say mildly addicted to Portable Apps, now for people who are wondering what im talking about. A portable App is an aplication that you can put on a USB thumb drive, flash medea, CD, anything you can plug in to a computer basicly and put a program on it so that you can take your progams with you to any other PC. I have yet to find any CNC programs tho as a start you can look at this site http://portableapps.com/ to get an idea of what im talking about. So dose anyone have anything like a simple simulator maybe basic CAD/CAM package. Im really after the simulator. I have a program that will view alot of picture files, IE DXF, DWG, EPS, and others if someone is interested.

[ger21]

I've heard you can install WindowsXP and Mach3 on one.

[automizer]

yes I have win XP on mine and I never thought about mach3, thank you

[ger21]

When you install Mach3, at the end of the install, uncheck the box that says "install driver". That will put it in simulation mode.

[automizer]

im playing with linux right now are there any simulators that run off of linux. Something simple like Flashcut

[ger21]

probably just EMC, which I don't think is all that simple.

[automizer]

EMC needs real time extensions to run properly and so it can't be run off a protable device, thank you for that though I never thought of it