[Noisebridge-discuss] CNC Shop Class

Andy Isaacson adi at hexapodia.org
Fri Oct 9 22:38:51 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:34:52PM -0700, 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.

Could you stick the VM on Pony or somewhere else on the local network?
Best bet is to create a .zip, run sha1sum, copy the zip to pony:/d1, and
post the SHA1 to the mailing list.

If you don't have an account on pony, we should fix that. :)

-andy



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