Re: Software

> > > >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.
>
> Complete is complete. If I said that Vector was complete, someone
> would take me to task for using weasel words. I do the same.

Complete is complete true. Low cost is low cost.
Use the whole sentence. I believe the ANNUAL maintaince fee for
Mastercam is $1200.

>
> > >
> > > > 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?
>
> Absolutely. I just posted tonight on a msg from Tim G., how to use
> Vector for cylinder engraving. Bobcad 17 has about the same
> capability. I'm also sure you have seen me post this link before:
> Free threading program
>
> http://www.vectorcam.com/thread.html
>
> This program creates multiple passes for single point threading and
> saves them to a file that Vector uses to create G-code. Anybody

that

> asks me about threading usually gets the word how to use it.
>
> Wayne Hill, a member of this group has written a nice program that

we

> usually offer to commercial customers with a non-discounted Vector
> purchase for lathe programming. It does 99% of all cycle work for
> turning(drill, tap, threading, reaming, grooving,chamfer, peck
> drill,etc), without any drawing needed. Just fill in the blanks

and

> gen the code. Wayne usually offers a good discount to list members
> so I don't usually mention it much here. Most Hobby controllers
> don't support the cycles, so the only benefit is multiple start
> threads. Most hobbyists don't try to machine them.

Yes but it's another add on you have to buy and then stitch into
Vector. How can this be complete and included if you have to mess
about copy pasting parts of code in.
True a lot of hobby controllers can't run the codes YET.
What about next month or the month after? EMC is comming on and Arts
Master5 is really shifting.

>
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Hmmm. Seems to be some discrepancies about how many posts are
> included in the Hobby version.

Dolphin has all these posts but in the hobby version you pick one and
it locks it to that machine. This is why the price difference. Just
stops commercial shops getting a cheap product.

>
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> You *still* sound like a compensated salesman.

Still trying to work out if that is a back handed compliment or not
<g>.

>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. He spent three months
>trying to get to grips with it and gave up.
> > It just appeared in my mail one day.
>
> How convenient. As I recall I also sent you a demo version at one
> time when you couldn't quite get your arms around Bobcad.
>

That's right, about a year previous, it was a version 7 demo. It
expired after about 30 days. If you remember at the time I asked if
you wanted it returning. You said no dump it, so I did.

John S.