Originally Posted by mrainey I wrote it by hand for the first twenty years, then used APT for the last five.
A lot of people seem to think they need CAM to do even simple things with a CNC machine. Most of the time a pocket calculator, a ten dollar copy of TurboCAD, and a text editor will get the job done pretty quickly. |
That $10 copy of TurboCAD and something like ACE (free) will do it 10 times (or more) faster.
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