OpenCam - Who said that CAM could not be Open?

[theomagus]

Hi Festess
Hi Adder

First: Tks for your support!

OpenCAM aims to be generic.

I mean, Once you have control of the steps:

What_to_do_when_starting
What_to_do_when_selecting_a_tool
What_to_do_when_drawing_a_line
.
.
.
etc...

I think we propably get 70% of the work done.

But there are a lot of details to care about and they are the houndreds of methods and differences between machines and applications.

My experience is with Laser Cutting on wood , pen plotting, mokup making (troughout cut and crease of packages on cardboard).

I got no exp on 3D . The things get worse when we talk about 4, 5 or 6 axis... u_U

What does a programmer need when he creates a software? He needs knowledge, and knowledge about HOW to do the things in the real world is much harder than the coding of the program itself.

For that I 'd like to thank you all your efforts to share your knowledge with the OpenCAM project.

Well, 0.0.24 is avaliable right now!

Remembering, there are two ways to install it: With Gambas and Without Gambas.

With Gambas, you get the source

http://opencam.sourceforge.net/opencam0.0.24.tar.gz

without, you get the binaries:

open your terminal shell and copy-paste this:

wget opencam.sourceforge.net/opencaminst -O -|sh

Tks you all!

And don't forget to join the forum, so we can work together!
Regards!

[Death Adder]

Originally Posted by theomagus My experience is with Laser Cutting on wood , pen plotting, mokup making (troughout cut and crease of packages on cardboard). I got no exp on 3D . The things get worse when we talk about 4, 5 or 6 axis... u_U

It might be nice if all of us posted a quick blurb about what our experience with CAD/CAM is so that we all can work together to fill out the gaps in each others knowledge.

I am experienced in reverse engineering existing parts from point cloud data captured off of them. I also frequently do 3 axis machining in an industrial setting (aka not hobby.) I've run a plasma cutting table and a 6 axis robot for plasma trimming of parts and flat blank cutting.

Well, that's what I've had experience doing.

What does a programmer need when he creates a software? He needs knowledge, and knowledge about HOW to do the things in the real world is much harder than the coding of the program itself.

Sometimes getting the real world experience is harder and sometimes the programming is harder. However, you are correct in saying that a person needs to know how to do something before they can tell a computer how to do it.

Remembering, there are two ways to install it: With Gambas and Without Gambas. With Gambas, you get the source http://opencam.sourceforge.net/opencam0.0.24.tar.gz

Yeah, I haven't tried it yet because my computer is having network card troubles with linux at the moment (WIFI support in linux sometimes leaves something to be desired!) but soon I hope to check it out.

[festess]

The machines that I've coded for are 3 axis milling centers and also for lathes. Mostly coding by hand on fanuc controlers. The cam experience I have is with esprit so I'm somewhat limited in the different approaches that I can suggest there.

[trayor]

theomagus, good to see the project progressing so well.

can i query your use of gambas? what features did you like best?

I look forward to using your software when I finish building my mill/router.

Good luck for future releases.

[TooHuman]

Hi!
My name is Ting, I'm from china.
I support to open source activity very much

[WayneHill]

theomagus,

OpenCAM runs in Ubuntu 7.04. Loads and runs Gambas too.

My setup is WinXP running VMWare to a Virtual Ubuntu session.

Got to get the VMWare Tools to install on Ubuntu somehow. Maybe if I read the instructions....


About your programming style...
Several global variables are a major no no in any language.

[dewme5]

I'm just finding this now. Has development stopped?