RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: RE MAXNC, light machines, EMCO MAIER,BOBCAD and beta interface test

John:

I'd suggest that you download the "trial" versions of some of these software
packages and see if their functionality and "look and feel" are suitable for
the way you like to work. We all work differently, and what I find easy, you
may find difficult (and the other way around). It does, however, take some
time to really learn to use these products.

The trial versions are usually "time limited." Some give you thirty days to
make a decision. When you get to G-Code interpreters, you'll find both the
"number of days" limitations or "amount of time to make the part"
limitations. In either case, you should be able to get a good idea of
whether the program will work for you.

Alternately, you could download a product like IntelliCAD 2001 and use a
DXF->GCode converter to do the same thing. The "lite" version of IntelliCAD
is available for the price of a download as is ACEConverter. (Look for
IntelliCAD on either CMS or Atlas Computing's web site. Use your search
engine to look for "intellicad" and "CMS" or Intellicad and Atlas. ACE
converter comes from Yeager Automation.

As far as "giving" away software is concerned, it's always wise to mention
that the software is legally yours to give. Some licenses do not allow a
transfer from one person to another while others are quite liberal. With
lawyers circling like buzzards awaiting the kill, nobody (including me)
wants to join a list that takes liberties.

-- Jerry Jankura
Strongsville, Ohio
So many toys, so little time....

| -----Original Message-----
| From: FIK [mailto:vrojas@...]
| Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 2:18 PM
| To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
| Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: RE MAXNC, light machines, EMCO
| MAIER,BOBCAD and beta interface test
|
|
|I do own the licenses to all the software I
| offered to GIVE away, I assume that whoever would sell me their software
| would destroy the copies on thier machine as required, I did not
| ask anyone
| to make me an ILLEGAl COPY of anything and I am willing to pay
| registrations
| fees for any thing I get. But it has to work for me, Just like an
| employee,
| when I hre someone I tell them what they are to do they don't tel me the
| terms they will work for me. I domn't hire people like that or buy crummy
| software that won't work my way. That is why IO get to choose
| wether or not
| to buy.