Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Has anybody tried BobCad software?

On Sunday 22 February 2004 10:03, stevenson_engineers wrote:

> Actually Cliff the guy who replied, Mike, owns the company he's not a
> rep.
> I can't fault the service I get from this company but more
> importantly the product.
> Over on one of the other lists they have also been asking questions
> about Bobcad, V19 in particular.
> It appears that there is a print bug in this that won't allow you to
> print.
> They know of this but still sell it without a work around other than
> using a screen capture, [ pause for hoots of maniacial laughter
> here ....]
> The first bug fix was pulled off the web site almost immediatly and
> the second one well over a week later is causing machines to crash.
> BUT..... they posted " Did you see the enhancements we switched
> on......."

Has bobcad evolved beyond the basic state it was in when I tried it? .. last
time I looked at using iot (for simple plasma profiling) all I wanted to do
was draw a part (say a square with a circular hole in the middle) and have
BobCAD produce a toolpath correctly offset 0.5mm larger than the square, and
0.5mm smaller than the internal circle. ALL proper CAM software can do this
.. can BobCAD? I'd have happily accepted it using G41 and G40 to select the
compensation in the CNC, but ti didn;t seem to have that option either .. and
to use G41/G40 you would need some form of lead-in generation, which BobCad
didnt appear to have ... It would also need M3/M5 words before the contours
to turn the plasma torch on and off ... I couldn't see how that was achieved
either ...

.. last tiem I asked I didn;t even get a reply, on the third time of asking I
was told to 'draw a line around the part and have the toolpath follow that'
... what about automatic lead-in/lead-out? hmmm ?? .. I can't see any point
in investgating the 'new 3d version' of BobCAD until they get the very basic
bits sorted out. As a CAD package it seemed OK, as a CAM package, it didn;t
seem to have any of the basic functionality I would have expected.

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