Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Maxnc - don't buy it!

Mike,

I will let you use my copy of cncpro if you want to test with it. I will
not need it back for a couple of weeks.

Bob Campbell

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Rainone <mrain1@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Maxnc - don't buy it!


> Thanks, Jon.
>
> There is no excuse for that kind of negligence. Maybe that is why Dan took
the link from Maxnc off of his website, or at least I
> didn't see it the last time I looked. The TIMESET function works find on
two axis', though it did not drive the third. The so-called
> instruction manual says something about the Z axis requiring an
alternative parallel port address. How that works is beyond me,
> especially when the the pin out diagram indicates pins 6 & 7 are for Z
step and direction. So I don't know what I have to do to get
> it to work.
>
> Anyway, I think that the lesson is clear, buy Maxnc at you own risk, in
fact, don't buy it at all. What little I know of them is
> that they are just another machine shop outfit that solved a problem for
themselves and are foisting the solution, half-baked as it
> is, on the rest of us. I don't care how well the program works for them,
if an outside user can't use it, or has such bad
> documentation such that an outside user can't figure it out, it shouldn't
be sold. That is the definition of fraud in my books.
> Sorry for the vitriol, but I am really pissed! I don't intend to ask for a
refund, but will do my damnedest to keep other people
> from buying it, at least until they get off of there dead arses and have
some decent documentation written for it. So, every time
> the question comes up about controller software you will see the "Maxnc -
don't buy it" subject line appear.
>
> Problem is, what is the alternative? Yeager, Kellyware - I need true 3D.
Any suggestion?
>
> Mike
>
>
> Jon Anderson wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > I know a couple folks that have offered to rewrite the manual, there was
> > no interest.
> > When I was running the Max software, it would accept any file extension.
> > Nice to have an additional 3 characters to try to describe the file.
> > Wish Ahha would implement this....
> >
> > Jon
> >
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