Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Bobcad

Ron K wrote:

>Hi
>Is there anyone on the list using Bobcad ? if so what do you think of it .
>They have drooped the price for version 17 down to a couple hundred dollars.
>Will it work with step & direction machines ?
>
>

I have Ver. 16.1 and it does work. There are some things that are real
cumbersome, and things work differently than other CAD programs
I've used. But, in general, it works fairly well. Their telephone
support is supposed to be worse than none, and the manuals are
so skimpy they try to get everyone to buy the video tape.

Bobcad is CAD and CAM only, no CNC. In other
words, it creates the G-code files for some other CNC program.
So, you need another program to make the machine move.

Jon