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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Yet Another New Machine
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:11:13 -0500
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"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vgg8a7$26lt0$1@dont-email.me...

On 11/5/2024 6:53 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
>> So is it a compiler?  ... No I think its best described as a specialized 
>> interpreter.


> I simply wondered if CAD systems typically generated readable and editable 
> G code.

Ready for it?

No.  Cad generates pretty pictures.  CAM generates g-code (or other code
possibly).

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The electronic design CAD systems I'm familiar with could export the line 
vectors and properties or circuit connections behind the pretty pictures in 
an ASCII text file that the CAM program from another company with different 
expertise could accept, sometimes after tweaking. The text file format was 
different from G or Gerber code but the two could be related, element by 
element.

Have you tried Notepad++?

Sorry if I don't know all the proper CAD or CAM terms. I sketch parts on 
paper as I learned in Jr High when my antique machines were new and don't 
have even a DRO on them.