Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Visual Mill vs Visual Mill Basic questions

Michael,

I may be able to help. Just send me a note off line.

The full package is great for high end molds as it lets you clean things up.

For most of us the basic package will do everything that I want to do.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Moore" <mmoore@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:54 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Visual Mill vs Visual Mill Basic questions


> Hi folks,
>
> http://www.mecsoft.com/Mec/Products/products.shtml
>
> is a chart showing a comparison between the Visual Mill 5.0 and
> VM Basic 5.0 software packages. There looks to be about a $3K
> difference in price between the two.
>
> I've got zero CNC experience though I've been trying to read as
> much as I can on the subject. A problem I have is that a lot of
> those extra features that the full version has over the Basic version
> don't mean anything to me, and I've yet to find a good glossary of
> CNC terms on the Internet that answers my questions.
>
> I'm looking at all these things that the full package does, like
> "horizontal re-roughing" and I'm finding that a lot of them don't tell
> me much, coming from a "try to remove only the metal I don't want,
> and just how that happens or how long it takes isn't too important
> as long as I can achieve it" (hobby) manual machining background.
> If I've already made a horizontal pass to hog off some metal with a
> roughing tool, why would I want to "rerough" it?
>
> I suspect that many of those features may be things that allow the
> job to be done faster, or are "conversational programming" features
> that let you avoid doing a 3D drawing/G code program to make
> things. Do any of those things actually let you make something
> that you couldn't make with the Basic version.or that a skilled
> master machinist (not me) could make on a manual machine?
>
> Speed is not of the essence in my consideration of doing a CNC
> conversion. What I'm interested in is compensating for my lack of
> skilled-machinist motor skills. I've got programming experience
> and I am comfortable with computers, so CNC seems like a way to
> leverage those skills/abilities and end up with some parts that I
> might otherwise decide are just too big of a PITA for me to try and
> make.
>
> I suspect that I'm not the only newbie who wonders what all this
> stuff is, and why it makes a difference, and would appreciate any
> light that the experienced members of the group might be willing to
> shed on the subject.
>
> thanks,
> Michael
> http://www.eurospares.com
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