All, I'm evaluating Gibbs myself, and I think jonbanquer has his head so far up his *** he can't see the forest for the trees. (What, too many metaphors?) Bill Gibbs must have turned him down for a job. I was forced to filter banquer out from alt.machines.cnc because of his incessant ranting and raving. He claims he doesn't like Gibbs because they don't have a demo version, they don't have an educational discount, they don't have macros, and they don't have user customizable posts.
I've been with SmartCAM since v2.05, and use it daily. Yes, I like drawing in SmartCAM better, but each time I use Gibbs, I like it more. It has a lot of power, and a lot of intuitive features. And yes, you CAN pick the X,Y, and Z from existing geometry. True, there is no macro language, and as of now, posts are not user customizable. As of now. Feel free to email me directly if you have any questions. I'm not an expert yet, but I'll sure try. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Hartnell Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:27 PM To: SmartCAM User Group (E-mail) Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam] Gibbs Gibbs seemed like a fairly good product at the time that I tested it, but the post processing was a problem. They seemed to want to keep everything a secret as far as their post language (compost) was concerned. They wanted to develop and maintain all the post processors. This was unacceptable to me. This may have changed but it is definitely worth checking out. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: January 3, 2001 9:58 AM To: Smart Cam user group Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] Gibbs I looked at it, it seems a fair package, but then again, I also read the alt.machines.cnc newsgroup and some guy named jonbanquer in there seems to think that gibbs is the cause of all bad things ever to have occured on the planet. Get opinions from users, and get a hands on demo from a dealer programming one of your parts. Don't purchase based on their part programs, but yours. And run the part, analyze the code, see what you think of its roughing and surfacing or whatever you are needing. If it works for you, makes you money, then to heck with what other people think. IMHO Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Club" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Smart Cam user group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 9:10 AM Subject: [mfg-smartcam] Gibbs > My company is looking at replacing Smartcam with Gibbs. Does anyone have any > opinions on this software? > > Thanks, > > Steve Clubb > > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== > > ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
