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You can do that manually in DOS Bobcad really fast. I think it's even faster than acad, because the interface is quicker. Sometimes the Windows interface is a pain in the patootie.

That's why I am happy enough with the old-fashioned, less-effective Sinopharm one.

But on the other hand, most of us here are so old it doesn't matter. There won't be any long-term effects...

The Fanuc 6 (or thereabouts) had FAPT. Done in one :D

But generally, I'd agree with you that offline is a lot better in almost every way.

@gkoenig, I think we agree that STEP-NC would be better...

People turn these into little cam grinders, too ... not long enough for automotive but you can do motorcycle cams. Or model engines ... hard to find when you want one. Terry ?

Did you ever go over to the place in San Rafael with the HUGE wooden tracks ? Like, fifty feet long, six lanes wide with high-banked curves like Daytona ? It only lasted about six months but wow .......

haj, perhaps it's you who wasn't paying attention :)

You read too much New York Times. I live in Shanghai. I am looking out the window onto Jiaozhou Lu right this second. I travelled to Zhejiang...

Divide by the number of people in the country, Buck. You produce twice as much per person.

Quit pointing fingers when you are twice as guilty.

And this still does not address the fact that you...

I don't get this part. What does freedom have to do with avoiding a virus ? 'Freedom', in the west, is all about the ability to give someone else a disease ?

I have not understood this from day...

CO2 is not the same as air pollution. Using Mark's figures above, the US emits roughly twice as much CO2 per person as China.

Your comments are therefore totally in error.

Back to the actual...

Queynte is straight out of Chaucer, the greatest poet of medieval England :)

It may "allow" that, but it's not what they are doing, and they have already verbally committed to much more ambitious goals. And in reality, China is already putting way more effort into CO2...

Sorry, I knocked this out and it turned out not as illustrative as I'd like. I got too clever with the weirdo angles so it doesn't illustrate common things, like a chamfered corner. Hope you get the...

I dunno ... people will snort anything these days :) I read somewhere people smoke alcohol now ? How the hell do you do that ?

I'd bet good money there were in the labs of the control builders ... as I came back to say to gkoenig, I don't think "this solution won out over all the proprietary attempts at dealing with complex...

Some time ago my mom was friends with the postmistress in Bartlett, California. She did it part-time, for free, because there were four (4) houses there. In the middle of the desert.

They got the...

Doubt it. The Create people have put a lot of effort into setting up a name and presence and online ordering and shipping, no reason for them to undercut themselves.

Sounds weird that they don't...

I knew a factory manager for a large bearing company, got drunk, drove off the road, hit a tree, lucky to be alive.

Yup, them machinists are stupid as shit.

Oh wait, I knew another machinist,...

I think that was the problem Tera had, too. If you can't get it from the CAD program into the control, what good is it ? Things sort of stagnated about 1980. (No I'm not hinting that adding Ruby...

It'd be like adding __attribute__ to assembler :)


Tera had a control with parabolic interpolation. I think it would have been nice to see controls (and RS-274) add more sophisticated ways to...

Don't mean to be too negative but those things have a really bad reputation. You might be better off just replacing it with something more reliable.

I know, but after you put a bunch of money...

Oh, the post above is by CalG. If it had any connection with reality, you could ask for your money back.

I'm sick to death of you idiots. You couldn't fucking sweep the street and have it come out clean, but you have to bitch about everyone else on the planet.

The post office is fine. It works good,...

We were waiting to see what you would report ! You went to see it the other day, right ?

Don't know about the nc versions but Jones & Shipman has a good reputation for manual grinders.

I've been in the post office many times, and they work just as hard as any employee on this site. Shop owners, no, but that's only because we get so far over our heads that if we didn't work like...

Y'all need to quit that too.

Tell Wolfowitz to take his wars and choke on them. Being the bumboy for a bunch of neocons isn't going to get you anywhere good.