On 02 Feb 2009 20:13:22 GMT, steamer wrote:

--Looking for a free or cheap download for a program that will
generate a tool path simulation from G-code. Anyone got a link to something
without an odious price tag or EULA?
TIA,
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Depends which G code dialect you want, if you want a simulator,
or just a line backplotter, if you need macros, etc.

for basic lathe/mill/wire/water see
http://www.cncsimulator.com/
http://www.ncplot.com/ncplotfree/ncplotfree.htm

also demos at
http://www.cutviewer.com/

If you come across any others that are free/cheap please post or
email me off list.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).