Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] VisualMill price increase.. huh?

At 04:20 PM 1/27/2003 -0800, Bob Campbell wrote:

>How much would you be willing to pay for an improved V3 product of
>VisualMill if it had DXF input?

I'm not Dean, but I would pay $300 for a non-crippled version of V3 with no
"live" tech support (any questions I've had were answered in the user
forum--I lurk there but have only asked a question or two myself.) I've
been using the free version, and am pretty happy with it. There are some
quirks--the roughing makes a lot of unnecessary moves ("air cutting",
machining a little at one end of the workpiece, the moving to the far end
to do some more machining, then moving back to the first end to do a little
more cutting, etc.). DXF input would be nice, but for planar shapes I
either write the gcode by hand or use the Versacad macro I wrote to take a
series of lines and arcs and output the gcode. Waterline finishing would
be the other main feature I would like.

VisualMill is a nice program, but at $995 I can't afford it right now, and
thus never will since the price is going up at the end of this week. On
the other hand, I have access to a seat of Mastercam at work that I have
been learning and can use for generating the gcode for the occasional
"swoopy" 3D form I need.

Best regards,

Randy

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