Re: VisualMill price increase.. huh?

I never got what an improved V3 would entail except for DXF support
which I don't really need.

I found a few quirks with V3 as well and it looks like I will be
stuck with it them as well. I'm starting to look at other CAM
options again however just in case.

I found that air cutting starts as a result of resetting the stock.
I goes away a little if you change the cutting params from linear to
pocketing then back again. Regenerating in between.

I called VM support the other day with a question. They answered it
no problem. They never asked me anything about ownership.

Dean



--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Randy Gordon-Gilmore
<zephyrus@r...> wrote:

> 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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