There is a CAM program out there called EZCAM ( http://www.ezcam.com/web/index.htm#) I tried to use the EZCAM Express Turn software (about $1000) and after about 8 hours of banging my head against a wall I gave up.
The manual and documentation is terrible. I have worked with some really hostile software before but this stuff is really bad. I don't know how bad BobCad is, but EZCAM, at least the version I used (purchased new about two months ago) was truly horrible. If you look at the CNCZone website they have a group, but the group came together chatted a lot about how great the software is for a couple of days and then there has been no activity for a long, long time. I think the exchange was rigged, seriously. I wouldn't buy the software if it was $20. It is that bad. Dave On 3/20/2010 10:17 PM, ad...@mmri.us wrote: > I had BobCad and it truly sucks. > It was a complete waste of money for us. > They sold it to us "twice" promising that it would just take a few small > edits to the G-code translator to get it to work with Isel machines. > After 4 months they still could not translate to Isel and Bobcad was > worthless after lots of money and time wasted. > > If I hear BobCad, I run and hide. > Since most of our work is 2-dim and simple, the fastest way is just to > write straight g-code which became a pleasure to work with compared to > the enormous bogus claims made by bobcad to get it working with their > software. I will not deal with them ever again. > > In the end simple won for me. > > I know 3-d would be a mess with G-code, working out all the toolpath > constraints, but so far I did not need it, cross-fingers. > > Hope to find a good 3-d Cam for Linux though. > > > > > Paul Keeton wrote: > >> The company I work for uses both. Our preferred package is Synergy. We use >> it on our big production machine programs. A couple of the guys still use >> BobCad at the machines for quick edits and tooling and fixture jobs. Type in >> Weber Systems in the search engine and think you can get a 30 day trial of >> Synergy for either windows or linux. >> >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
