[Jewelry making - Article 00033] - Re: [Orchid] DelCam Alternatives

[Bruce D. Holmgrain]

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>     The price for DelCam was quite a shock! Anyone know a reliable and
>     user friendly software program that won't make me sell my first
>     born child to buy it?

Marsha,

    I am toying with an assortment of packages at the moment. I have
    been using Rhino3D to produce STL and IGES files for a while now. I
    send those files out to a service bureau for prototyping. If I want
    to do them in house, slices need to be done and Gcode created. One
    cheap alternative for 2 1/2 D work is MeshCAM. Check it out.


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