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Davek0974

Hi all from Hertfordshire, England...

Hi all,
New member signing in, building myself a CNC plasma table and need to Lear cad for the first time.

Librecad looks to be a great bit of software.

Dave

R. van Twisk

Re: Hi all from Hertfordshire, England...

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Hello Dave,

always good to see fellow CNC users!

Out of curiosity, what CAM system are you planning to use?

Cheers,

Ries

On Jan 24, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Davek0974 [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi all,
New member signing in, building myself a CNC plasma table and need to Lear cad for the first time.

Librecad looks to be a great bit of software.

Dave

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Davek0974

Re: Hi all from Hertfordshire, England...

I'm new to all of this :)

All my machinery is manual old-school iron so I am trying to learn cad, cam and CNC in one go.

I'm building the controls on Mach3 and using sheetcam for compiling the G-code.

I tried using illustrator for the source DXF file but it's a complex program to learn, being used to x-y coordinates seems to make learning cad a bit easier, should be ok once I've learnt the basics.

R. van Twisk

Re: Hi all from Hertfordshire, England...

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Hey Dave,

my machine is a Mechmate and I do mostly woodworking, all 2.5D and 3D with a bit of indexer.

Sheetcam sound’s alright for CAM and the sort of work you will be doing, and you cannot go wrong with Mach3 once it’s running on your PC (I use LinuxCNC).

I wouldn’t go through illustrator or other ‘paint’ sort of package and stick to to true CAD/CAM, it’s usually not worth the effort, unles

you really have something creative to make :)

Ries

On Jan 24, 2014, at 2:45 PM, Davek0974 [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'm new to all of this :)

All my machinery is manual old-school iron so I am trying to learn cad, cam and CNC in one go.

I'm building the controls on Mach3 and using sheetcam for compiling the G-code.

I tried using illustrator for the source DXF file but it's a complex program to learn, being used to x-y coordinates seems to make learning cad a bit easier, should be ok once I've learnt the basics.

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Davek0974

Re: Hi all from Hertfordshire, England...

Ooh, Mechmate, that's a big machine :). Been reading their forum for build ideas etc, very nice.

I'm hoping to stick with cad, started watching the videos on YouTube, very useful resource.