Re: Software

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "IMService" <imserv@v...> wrote:

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> > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:19:57 -0000
> > From: "stevenson_engineers" <machines@n...>
> >Subject: Re: Software
>
>
> >A large amount of normal lathe commands are missing.
> >Dolphin is the ONLY repeat ONLY low cost complete Lathe program.
>
> Low cost and complete? Bobcad claims that their V16 program
> is complete too. For some people it is. I find that there is
>always
> something new that I want to do, so I need to be able to have
> external programmability, using my choice of windows programming
> language . Does Dolphin offer this?

Yes Fred it has some form of programming. To be honest I don't
understand this but it could be VBA. Mike will have to answer this.

>
> > All the toolpaths are generated from a flat
> >2D drawing.
>
> How can it do 3D surface milling from flat 2D drawings?

Same as Bobcad, one profile for the XZ one for the XY.

>
> >Dolphin is the only low cost program that is complete
>
> Does Dolphin have all the features of Mastercam, Gibbs, Surfcam,

Pro-E,?

> How can it be complete if it doesn't have all the same features?

Get real Fred, is Mastercam, Gibbs, Surfcam, Pro-E low cost??
No way. The annual maintainance fee is more than Vector costs.

>
> > with CAD, mill,
> >4th axis, lathe , post and comms - no extra's.
> >I defy anyone to name another package that has these features.
>
> Vector has all these features and a lot more in the basic package.

Is 4th axis in the basic page ?
How about screwcutting?

> We ship Vector Cam with the posts for all the stable hobby
> controllers(about ten of them). How many posts with Hobby Dolphin?

78 Mill posts, 27 lathe posts, ALL user configerable to do what you
need.
Some maachines like Anilams need all the tools listing at the top of
the G code file and not in the code like a lot of others. If you
change tools on the last operation the tool details will still appear
at the top of the posted code where they are needed with all the
offsets listed against them. Again where they are needed in the post.
Dolphin doesn't produce code on the fly. It only produces the code
when you are happy with all the operations.

>
> John, for someone who claims no financial connection, you sure
> sound like a CAD/CAM salesman. Why didn't you mention that
> even though you have Vector, it's the Cad-only version?
>

I don't sell any CAD/CAM programs. I am not a salesman, I an just an
everyday user who thinks very highly of the product. I bought Dolphin
and paid full current price at the time for it. I get no comebacks,
payoffs or even a bloody Christmas card. Bottom line is it's simple,
easy to learn and does what you want. The only manual editing I ever
do is to probably tweak the speed or feed rate to suit the job.
Fred, as you rightly say I do have the Vector CAD only version that I
bought direct from you. I actually only bought this to get the
current manual. I also have a genuine copy of Vector CAD/CAM. I think
it's V8. This was given to me, with licence disk, by a guy in the
States who bought it direct from you. Full version, full price not
the hobby list deal.
He spent three months trying to get to grips with it and gave up.
It just appeared in my mail one day.

John S.