Ping Vinny: GSimple

Sep 28, 2008 5 Replies

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DrollTroll 17 years ago

Dude,

I downloaded Gsimple

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, and it seems OK. I was able to draw a circle, get a few distances, snap seems to work on a polygon, altho not on a circle (at least not at the XY axis points).

It can do isometric/axonometric views, altho I haven't figgered out how to do 3-D drawings, and don't know if it can do blends, tangents, trig calcs, etc.

Can you, or anyone else, look at the drawing capabilities of this program, and suggest if it is good enough to press on with? I think I am more interested in drawing than cam at the moment, as I'm so used to just cranking out my own g-code, primitive as it might be.

If this program is a little limited or rudimentary as a drawing program, are there others (free/shareware/cheap) that are better?

The guy who did this did it as a labor of love, apparently, and doesn't ask for $$, even if you like it/use it!! wow....

Unzipping/extracting it seems to be a little trial and error. I'm going to email him to make the process more explicit. But sheeit, if *I* managed....

Thanks!

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J. Nielsen 17 years ago

I haven't tried drawing in Gsimple, but even for simple 2D you're = generally better of using a dedicated CAD program for design, and then export the = file to a CAM proggie as a dxf file.

=46ree CAD programs:

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DrollTroll 17 years ago

I haven't tried drawing in Gsimple, but even for simple 2D you're generally better of using a dedicated CAD program for design, and then export the file to a CAM proggie as a dxf file.

Free CAD programs:

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Great!

The 3D-capable programs have some fairly well known names, and some less known: Alibre, CoCreate, Powershape-e (Delcam!), GraphiteOne, X11, Rhino, Concepts

2D/32.

Most are not badly crippled. Rhino will will let you save 25 times, Alibre has a 25 component limitation, some boolean stuff omitted.

Which one to pick????? Would like the basic trig stuff (like what you see on a fadal control, figgering out tangents, intersections, blends, etc), 3D rotation, etc., but most importantly ease of use, at least for now.

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vinny 17 years ago

Circles in cad cam usually snap to a quadrant, usually at 3 oclock, but sometimes at 9 oclock.

I read the faq on the site, says no 3d. It claims to be 2.5 axis. That usually means 2d and an ability to type in a draft angle when cutting depths. like in a contour or pocket.

Well, if you want to just draw and not post out anything almost all the major cam systems have demo's. usually they do everything but save and post process. Get an esprit demo.

or..here'sone...

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Go to the dptechnology site and request the demo version of esprit. It just wont post process or save...but it used to dxf out. Making it able to save.

Just a guy proud of his work...imagine that in todays greedy world.

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DrollTroll 17 years ago

I assumed it could draw in 3-D, from the isometric/axonometric views of the sample parts he showed. How does one get those views from a 2-D drawing?

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vinny 17 years ago

I dont know man, never even looked at the software. I will give you some advice...pretend your the computer. It can only look one way, from one direction. Maybe you can draw stuff in views by setting a z level in that view.???

or, get the demo from esprit. it draws in 3d.

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