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nickbuol:
What plans are you going with?  I have a lot of plans in various formats, and I have LuSiD's in AutoCAD.

HoopstarsGarage:
I have a friend who runs a metalwork CNC mill at his house for his business..

He will NOT allow people to program their own CAD work because if they make a mistake, the mill head could drive itself somewhere it is not designed to go, causing big $$ damage..

He will use your CAD plans as a basis, but will still charge to go over it as if it was a scratch program - you might find that some of these places will operate with the same kind of rules :(

Hoops

RandyT:
I own a 4'x8' CNC router table and expect that to be the norm as well, seeing that I would never trust code supplied by a 3rd party to run on my machine.  There are couple of problems, the least of which being that all CNC machines don't speak the same code.  Most will understand some derivitive of G-code, but there tends to be dialects among some of them.

I think the best you could hope for is to supply a clean, 1:1 scaled DXF (or other agreed upon vector format drawing) and let the CNC guys do the rest.

That being said, if anyone needs a custom CP top or something like that, feel free to send me drawing of what you are looking for, and if I can fit it in I'll send you a quote.

RandyT

mark shaker:

I ended buying Autocad 9.2 Deluxe for about $17 including shipping.

nickbuol:

I've gone off the deep end... I just got the terrific news that my empty Spincade should be shipping next week, and I don't have any room for it much less anything else.

But ... after looking over the Frostillicus Arcade plans I realized that you can probably create a cabinet with 5 or 6 panels. I won't even start it until I finish my Spincade, but it just has to be done...

May I have a copy of your autocad plans? I've never used a CAD program before, and it would be great to have a starting point.  my e-mail (minus punctuation) is mshaker comcast net.

RandyT:
I'm in the Detroit Metro Area, are you close enough so that shipping won't be awful? (As you can see I've already spent all my money!)

    - Mark

nickbuol:

--- Quote from: mark shaker on June 17, 2005, 04:43:20 pm ---May I have a copy of your autocad plans? I've never used a CAD program before, and it would be great to have a starting point.
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