Drawing Dimension Box

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Hey Arlin,

I've been doing a lot of thinking about what you said

If you make it an all in one that will do CAD CAM and control from one screen, like P cam or flashcut, Im in, at least if it would control my current hardware

You mentioned you're currently using QtPlasmaC on LinuxCNC

So, I mentioned I probably was not going to do this but honestly, I've had a change of heart and here's why. Embbeded Motion Controls have been on my backlog for a while. I'm almost ready to merge the "GcodePilot" workspace which is a Gcode Sender which supports GRBL, GRBL_Hal, GRBL_Esp32, FluidNC, TinyG, Smoothie, etc. It's the same nice UI as JetFlight (My own motion control that will be launching soon). The more I've though about it, the more it makes sense to to bring in LInuxCNC support. Since JetCad3 is already cross-platform, it's essentially a single line change in your linuxCNC .ini which would just be pointed to a specific launcher that handles the JetCad3 integration to LinuxCNC. I also have LinuxCNC machines up and running in my shop and I have extensive background with LinuxCNC including other custom user LinuxCNC Front Ends.

This opens JetCad3 up to be CAD/CAM/Control on a vast majority of already existing machines without any hardware changes at all and I think that's so novel that It would be an incredible mistake not to do that.

I think you could expect this to available in just a couple weeks. I'll reach out here when it's ready for you to give it a go

Thanks!

Sounds great! I think there would be a lot of interest personally. Will I need to pay out the 3k out front to test drive-work out bugs etc? I am quite interested but not sure if I am ready to go out on the limb yet for something still being developed, if you know what I mean?

The GcodePilot workspace will be Free. The profit model lives around the high-end CAD/CAM features which is where there's been significant amount of time spent. I'm 12 years into this project as it stands right now and development will never stop. Many of the high-end feature like Adaptive toolpath's and Auto-Nesting are highly proprietary and incredibly complex. Hypertherm spent big money in the late 80's (according to the second hand information I have) for their NFP algorithm and Autodesk purchased HSMworks almost entirely to gain Adaptive toolpaths. Nearly all the other 3D parametric systems on the market today license Semens Parasolid. I've devloped nearly all of this myself, there's minimal dependencies.

You'll be able to test run the Machine control because it will always be free.

My hopes are that people look at the subscription model as a means to get to know and trust the software before jumping to the unlimited lifetime license. I'm also providing 30 days free trial on subscriptions so you can really test the waters before spending any money at all!

I have some huge plans for this and I do need to start bringing in profit soon. I'd like to hire a well paid team and I'm looking to build an underground datacenter on my home property so I own my stack on-prem. I plan to have my own LLM setup with custom trained models for fully integrated agentic workflows into JetCad3. The hardware cost is significant but this will open up some incredible functionality for productivity. What I have planned has never been done before. My goal is to build the best CAD/CAM/Control system that has ever existed and offer it at a price that small shops can't afford to be without it. JetCad3 should literally pay for itself in time savings in shops all around the world.