Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Can CNCPro users provide some input?

I've been using CNCpro since 11/99 and have grown to love it. This is not
Fanuc or Mitsubishi, but its close enough for $175.

Documentation is poor, just like the commercial stuff. Help screens are not
very helpful, just like the commercial stuff. Yep, its as close as you can
get to the commercial stuff for a fraction of the price. At least Doug
Yeager follows up with patches when bugs appear.

I would like to see the jog function put into a separate menu so that
accidentally touching an arrow key wouldn't send the table careening off
toward certain mischief. Other than that, it runs flawlessly for me.

Doug Harrison

----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Brock <don.pat.brock@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 6:20 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Can CNCPro users provide some input?


> Hello all,
>
> I'm considering CNCPro as an upgrade from DeskNC for a home brew
> project. I will add here that this is not for my personal use alone
> and that the end user who is footing the bill has no desire to use an
> operating system other than DOS at this time. I would however, like
> some input from those that have used this software on its pro's and
> con's.
>
> As both the other end user and I are CNC machinists/programmers for
> lathes and mills, I'm more familiar with the way comercial machines
> work with the various commercialy made controls. These being Fanuc,
> Mitsubishi, Hitachi-Seiki, Yasnak, etc. DeskNC has been close to
> working the same as these control systems. I am interested in the
> simularities and diferences in the CNCPro software compared to the
> higher comercial systems.
>
> With all do respect to Carey Culpepper and his problem with cutting a
> raduis on a lathe using this software, his problem has sparked a
> curiousity on my part and I would especially like to know how this
> software handles diameters on a lathe. Are diameters programed from
> a full diameter point of view or are they programed from a radial
> point of view?
>
> >From what I see by the info sheets I printed out from the web, this
> software was intended more for mill type operations than lathe.
>
> How about some input from those of you that use it for three axis
> mill type work (more in line with the application I'm considering it
> for). I would be interested in hearing anything good or bad that you
> have found about it.
>
> The software seems to have many more features than DeskNC but does it
> function as well as it appears it may?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Donald Brock
> Baton Rouge, LA
>
>
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