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If you really want opensource, why did you buy a machine w/ a board which isn’t fully opensource? (while the Arduino portion is, the balance of the board is not documented beyond breaking out some pinouts) - have you considered replacing the board w/ an opensource one? I believe everything has been documented well enough by the community to do so. Thank you for finding the link to: - adding that to the wiki.
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I believe I read somewhere in the past that Linux was supported I had not realized it would be over Wine. Again, another crippled down feature which was not part of the purchase information. This is a nasty issue since Carbide Motion is very limited.
#Nc to gcode converter license#
Rationale given by authors is unsatisfactory in my view.ģ- New version of Meshcam forbids gcode out with Nomad license => resulting in a tool suite that will not work without forcing Carbide Motion. This was not too bad an issue since gcode could be post-edited. Forces postprocessing through parsing gcode. Allegedly, it was never supposed to work in the first place but at least Meshcam can output gcode so any gcode downloader can push to the GRBL on Nomad.Ģ- Mescham postprocessor unavailable in Nomad version.Ĭrippled version never mentioned anywhere in Kickstarter campaign. Personally, I find it uncomfortable but I suppose it is a matter of perception. Since it seems my previous post was promptly suppressed, here is a toned down and more accurate version of the issue so far:ġ- Meshcam supposed to work on Linux ( ). Is it -really- that much of a problem to require a license key?
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The downsides to doing it like this seem a little worse than the problem.
#Nc to gcode converter install#
I understand the desire to “lock” the meshcam install to the nomad.
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I understand the desire to not make the customer enter a license. This all seems like a really slippery slope.
#Nc to gcode converter software#
Now I’m basically getting a feature taken away (I could inject other things in the workflow…now I can’t, and to do so I basically need to go buy $250 in software to get it back) Sure, there’s other things about the Nomad, but this was a factor in my decision. I didn’t need to go buy different software and I still got a complete workflow. Part of the draw of Nomad was that Meshcam was included in the elevated price over a shapeoko ($250). I can’t use meshcam anywhere but next to my nomad)? When will they tweak meshcam to only run when connected to a nomad too (ie. When will they take that away too? When will they tweak the interface to grbl so that it doesn’t take standard gcode any more (all it takes is a $1 micro in front of grbl on the board, and it’s done, no licenses violated). At the moment the way around that is to open the file in motion, copy->paste to a file and go from there. I’m fine with the meshcam license being tied to the nomad, I’m not fine with making me use their predefined sender and no other. And I have yet another step in the middle (that is hard to automate) if I want to run the gcode through another tool between generation and sending to the machine. Except now I -must- use motion if I use meshcam.