Pop up adverts, was Re: Speaking of tangents, etc....

I'm sure your right Doug, my earlier reply was only a 'light hearted'
one. But I have to say that if they have to be spending that kind of
money to get it to do the job they want, then I personally would be
questioning whether they are using the right software.

On a more serious note, I am getting more and more concerned about
the pop up advertising which is being used by Yahoo when reading
messages on line. The two favourites seem to be a gadget for 'picking
any lock', and a spy camera which seems to being sold for vouyeristic
uses. Do we really want this kind of advertising from a 'reputable'
company?

Dave Pearson

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "doug98105" <dougrasmussen@c...> wrote:
> Dave & others,
>
> I don't know all the details of this situation, but I have to
assume
> it's far more complicated than could be done in 4 hours. They do
> have a full time computer guy on staff and the fact that Mastercam
> could not supply a post to do the job should tell you something.
>
> The machine is a couple of years old with a state-of-the-art Fanuc
> control.
>
> I suspect their problem has to do with wanting to contour at very
> high feedrates, maybe in the 500 to 1000 ipm range. Even with a
> 15,000rpm spindle, at those kind of feedrates the cutter
orientation
> has to be optimal to get good surface finish.
>
> Doug
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "follicely_challenged"
> <dave_pearson@b...> wrote:
> > I've just finished writing a post processor for a 5 axis machine
> for
> > the Dolphin Partmaster system. The customer isn't doing five axis
> > surface machining, just doing 2/2.5D machining on five different
> > faces of a cube fixture.
> > It took me about four hours, let me see........that works out at
> > about $3750.00 per hour (I wish).
> >
> > Dave Pearson
> >
> > --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "art" <fenerty@h...> wrote:
> > > to handle
> > > > the head movement. The cost of the post was estimated to be
> > > > $15K!!!! Fairly complicated stuff.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Wow...I'm in the wrong end of the software business...
> > >
> > > Art
> > > Master5 Software
> > > http://users.andara.com/~fenerty/master.htm