No whiners here just looking for a software with no associtivity and lots
of control
and no wizzards!
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'John Wright' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 'Manhart, Martin'
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; '[MFG-SMARTCAM]'
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 7:31 AM
Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam] MASTER CAM
>As everyone knows Smartcam is an excellent cam software and has had a big
>impact on the manufacturing community. When you look at the progression
from
>Point Control Days until last year the technology was second to none. The
>problem is SDRC has decided to abandon the development of the software and
>focus their attention on the larger customers that are willing to spend a
>lot more money then the normal business. There's a good and bad to what
they
>have done. The bad is they decided that the customer base they have using
>smartcam was not important anymore. The good thing they have done is to
open
>our eyes to other software's that are actually as good or better and are
>putting development money into their products to help the manufacturing
>community. We evaluated all of the major Cam software's and we used
Smartcam
>to compare these products to as one of the test. We found that through this
>process that EdgeCam by Pathtrace had a lot of similarities. The system is
>easy to use and they offer different modules (like Basic mill,Freeform
>Machining,Turn,Wire,etc.)As we investigated Edgecam more we saw that they
>were committed to advance the technologies for the cam industry now and in
>the future. We also found that there are no 2 software's that are exactly
>the same. Some things are easier in smartcam and some in Edgecam. We found
>several features with EdgeCam over Smartcam. Since we choose Edgecam to be
>our Cam product they have made several enhancements above smartcam. They
are
>able to read several Cad Solids directly, such as Catia,Solidedge,etc.
>Working with code generators are a lot easier and the way they store their
>tools in the tool store is really cool (not to mention the ease of
>programming parts). All I know is that it doesn't matter how well we like
>smartcam it is gone. Anyone that sets around whining about it being gone
>will be the same ones whining later that they are loosing business to the
>companies that moved on. Thanks Pathtrace for stepping up to bat and take
us
>through the next millenium.
>Thanks for letting me say my piece.
>D. Allen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Wright
>Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:46 PM
>To: Manhart, Martin; [MFG-SMARTCAM]
>Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] MASTER CAM
>
>
>Thank you I am still looking for that killer package similar to smart cam
or
>should I say
>(smart cam 2 the resurrection ) ha! wishful thinking.
> John
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Manhart, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 'John Wright' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [MFG-SMARTCAM]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Murdoch, Christoph
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Irwin, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
>Sawickyj, Teofil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:20 PM
>Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam] MASTER CAM
>
>
>>John,
>>
>>We just had a 1-1/2 hour demo of Master cam milling level 2 V7 & V8 beta
>>(2-1/2 axis) the modeler is very nice solid extruding/subtracting
unlimited
>>construction lines nice trimming dimensioning, all the toys. It drilled
>>holes quite well, didn't face mill very well and the work planes for
>>indexing around a Horizontal machine's index table were not as easily
>>created, there is also no automatic resequencing of tool path or tool
>>sorting once tool path is created other than grabbing each machining
>>operation off a list and repositioning the whole operation as a unit in a
>>different order. It's one main flaw is you can't edit he tool path
>elements
>>that are generated. The demo guy did a pocketing cut which had a lot of
>>repetitious passes through the a valley which you could have doctored up
in
>>SmartCam but would have been nightmare to deal with weeding out of the
>>actual G-code.
>>The translator from AutoCAD would only get the wire frame elements for the
>>.dwg file so you still had to write out a .sat file from AutoCAD and
import
>>the .sat into MasterCam to get the solid model.
>>The mold/die making package (available for another $1,400) looked good
>>though, it had a lot more gouge checking in it than SmartCam.
>>
>>I guess we may need it to keep up with the changing versions of
translators
>>to still be able to import Cad files, but It still needs more development.
>>
>>P.S. They did say in one of the next versions tool path editing is going
to
>>be added!
>>
>>Marty
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:25 PM
>>> To: [MFG-SMARTCAM]
>>> Subject: [mfg-smartcam] MASTER CAM
>>>
>>>
>>> Anybody ever tried MasterCam?
>>> If so how did it compare to smartcam.
>>> Thank's John
>>>
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