Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Response - The Saga

Art Fenerty wrote:

>
> Ballendo:
>
> Unregistered only, of course. The registered version works forever. The
> program will actually start to jump lines of g-code after an hour or so. I
> should have a message box open up to tell the user his time just expired.
> ( hmmm, next version).

I think this silent change is a VERY BAD thing. I understand all the
reasons for such 'crippled versions' of software, and dont want to open
any flame wars here on if thats good or bad- its a fact, OK.

BUT, to silently start missing moves could be dangerous, and certailny
would make me mad as hell if it happened while I was testing software.

cncpro has a somewhat random time out, but it stops working completely
and flashes up a message box. I found that annoying, since in my first
tests I issued a lot of commands while trying just to get the setup
parameters correct, but at least there was no doubt when it reached the
limit. I got past it enough to decide it was a good package and bought
it.

I would really encourage you to make the end obvious, not silent. If I
had hit such a timeout on an evaluation package I would refuse to buy it
no matter how good it was otherwise.

ron