I've never tried rhino but i like solidworks for modeling and making drafted
text surface models in any windows font also does the modeling very well!
thanks bill
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 'smartcam user group'
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:59 PM
Subject: [mfg-smartcam] We can still wish can't we?
>Amen, there has never been a product like Smartcam!
>
>You would think that SDRC in all of it's infinite wisdom would build a next
>generation Smartcam, that product would blow the doors off the market.
>I never saw a product of any kind that ended development and the users
didn't go
>away. Since Smartcam development ended I have seen many demos, none of
which can
>carry Smartcam's jock.
>I am sure that IDEA's by now has the kinks worked out much better, only I
don't
>want that kind of mega package. Smartcam was exactly the product I needed.
>My Artisan was uninstalled long ago and still lives in a file cabinet. I do
>appreciate SDRC giving me the free Artisan upgrade when I bought the last
>Freeform version.
>If Smartcam were rewritten in a more current language and a modeler with
Rhino's
>capability were integrated into it, that would be the top cam product
available
>today. Freeform and Rhino together make one heck of a package.
>Those ill behaving Freeform surface models, remember those, you can export
the
>ill behaving Freeform surface model via IGES into Rhino and simply save it
in
>Rhino's .3dm format, then import it back into Freeform as IGES and every
problem
>you had with the model will be gone and the model will be very editable
once
>again.
>Punching surfaces and flat surface shapes with irregular boundaries were
always
>a problem. In Rhino you can create any irregular shape, select all of the
>bounding line or curve elements, then Select "N Sided Patch", click Join to
make
>the boundary a Single entity and whamo, you have your irregular surface
with no
>punching or trimming(with mesh density settings in a pop up menu too). Save
and
>export that puppy into Freeform and generate your toolpath. Freeform had
only
>scratched the surface of it's potential when the plug was pulled.
> In Freeform I would spend hours and hours filleting, trimming, converting
from
>wire frame to surfaces etc, Rhino skips every bit of that for fillets,
variable
>fillets and tons more.
> If Rhino sells for $795.00 how much could it have cost SDRC to add all
that
>NURBS functionality?
> Can we have a wish list anymore?
>Smartcam Freeform NURBS Modeling, that's the ticket.
>I can still wish can't I?
>Michael
>
>disclaimer: I do not sell Rhino or any other software.
>
>
>
>
>
>John Wright wrote:
>
>> 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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