Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Recommended CAM software? - BobCad

"Statman Designs, LLC" <titanium@...> wrote:
The Vector copy you get with your Sherline mill is CAD only, so you were
NEVER going to generate G-Code with that program. There are a lot of simple
parts that can be coded by hand or Microsoft Excel (my personal favorite
choice). But there are MANY programs that coding by hand just doesn't do
it. For me, I got Vector in order to do some true-type text engraving and
it paid for itself the first day I used it.

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You say you have 2 different versions of Bobcad. You couldnt get Bobcad to do ttf text engraving? Thats one of the easiest things that it does. You must be having computer problems.

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In general, I do not use it for much else, and anytime I can't get something
to work because of the very crappy help files, Fred will answer my questions
immediately. Without Fred's support the Vector program would be no better
received than BobCAD, IMO.

Daniel J. Statman, Statman Designs
www.statmandesigns.com
dan.statman@...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Jones"
To:
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:17 PM
Subject: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Recommended CAM software? - BobCad

> Funny, I've only ever heard pretty much the same things. Yeah Vector, boo
> BobCAD... But I received a copy of Vector with my Sherline mill and spent
> several hours trying to wade through the quasi-english tutoria and never
> actually got the first sample part right in Vector, let alone *my* part,
G-code,
> etc. I just gave up. Insane as it sounds, it took me less time to had
write
> the G-code...
>
> Training CDs sound wonderful. But A) you shouldn't need 'em (or if you do
> it ought to come with that package) and B) if BobCAD is more difficult and
> quirky than Vector, oh my...
>
> Jeff
>



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