Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Bobcad anyone?

In a message dated 7/11/2006 8:48:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
john@... writes:

Bobcad V21 STILL doesn't have a post processor.
It has various config files that you have to select in order, tool, speeds.
coolant etc.

I have just ran one of their simple demo's, selected all the entities and
told it to machine it on auto.

No tool selected, no feeds selected, no Z depth selected.

Any program with a proper post procesor whould have asked what tool, what
feed etc.

For $1100 you have a good choice out there instaed of being sucked in by
these shysters hawking a 10 year old program around.

No-one works this way any more.

John S.



John :

That is EXACTLY what I found out when we tried their demo. They even went
so far as to put one of their so-called programmers online and he must have
thought that I was a total idiot. He kept telling me that what they were
calling post-processors were exactly that. When I kept asking him about the lack
of Z levels, tool change commands, etc. he told me that ALL CAM programs with
post processors worked the way theirs did. When I told him I had been using
Master CAM and Alpha CAM over the years, he pretty much ended the
conversation and turned me back over to one of their salesmen. They kept pointing out
that they were right here in the U.S. and so their support would be vastly
superior to any of the off shore packages. It seemed that was their only good
point which really wasn't one at all since both of the aforementioned
packages and Dolphin CAD/CAM have been awesome in their support.

Bottom line is exactly what you said, they are trying to high pressure
people into purchasing very old software with some "window dressing".

Oh, and that programmer told me that I could customize their so-called post
processors by using their "scripting" module and that NO ONE else gave you
that ability. Well, Dolphin does and so does Master CAM and Alpha CAM, of
course you do have to purchase Master's and Alpha's more up scale seats to get
this. Dolphin includes it right in all of their levels.

Randy Abernathy



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