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Default IGGY - Pocket Drilling

On 2010-09-09, Jon Anderson wrote:
On 9/8/2010 11:58 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:

Yeah, I'm sure there are a million reasons why this is a bad idea, but
for a ton of applications it works great.


Actually, this is done a lot now, just peruse some videos on Youtube.
I'd do it myself quite often, but one of the flaws in Ahha is that
thread milling (the only option for this sort of approach) does not work
well. When I have to threadmill, I drop back to an earlier version that
sorta works...

Just one of the reasons I'm seriously looking to switch to either EMC or
Mach3 in the near future...


I have been extremely happy with EMC. Besides everything else, EMC has
top notch community support, on the mailing list for big questions,
and on IRC for little questions.

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