[Noisebridge-discuss] CNC Shop Class

[Al Billings]

On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Michael Wright wrote:

> In terms of learning CNC, EMC2 has a really really nice simulator  
> (well, actually it's a 3D representations of what it thinks the  
> machine it's controlling is doing).  It runs reasonably well on VM- 
> Ware (even on my little MSI Netbook).  If anyone wants a copy of the  
> VM I use it's about 6.4 GB (alternatively you can just download  
> the .ISO and make your own.  It seems to run much better installed  
> on the VM hard disk with 2 virtual cores than it did running  
> diskless (from the .ISO file).  Currently it has 700 MB available  
> and is using 360.

I'd love to get a copy of your vmware virtual machine. I have vmware  
all set up as part of my daily work.

Al