> Dear Mr. McCoy > > Can I buy a seat of Camand Machinist or Multax without the purchase of > additional SDRC software? > > Will SDRC ever admit that they should scrap GenMach and develop > Camand? I have read many ICCON messages and too many have stated > that GenMach 6 is virtually useless. I have comunicated with > individuals that own SmartCAM and GenMach and they have scraped > GenMach and continue to use their FFM seats. > > The ex-Camand Var's and users have told me that SDRC has lost or forced > out all or almost all of the coders that developed Camand and corporate > pride or stupidity combined with the NIH (not invented here) mentality has > crippled the development of GenMach. SDRC has attempted to develop GenMach > for five or six years now and many users still believe that GenMach 7 can > neither equal SmartCAM in ease of use or Camand Machnist or Multax in > functionality. > > SDRC continues to lose ground to UG Solutions and their CAD\CAM de- > velopments. They have converted their Parasolid Kernel from a single to > a multithreaded architecture Dec. 98; SDRC has yet to do so for their > pro- prietary Solid Modeling Kernel! With V16, UG Solutions now has a > NATIVE NT version of their entire suite of CAD\CAM Sep. 99; SDRC has yet > to do so for I-DEAS, Master Series, or GenMach! UG Solutions continiues > to develop their 5 axis CAM software Variable-Axis Milling; SDRC has > ceased develop- ment of Multax and by all accounts has lost the > development team reponsible for Multax! > > I would reasemble the Point Control people that produced SmartCAM's > Advanced Turning Package and all of Camands developers for my dream > CAM package. > > My dream CAM Milling package would have SmartCAM's ease of use and > Camand's powerful cutting algorithms, multithreaded code for every CAM > operation that could benifit from this architecture, SDRC's NEW NT NA- > TIVE multithreaded proprietary Solid Modeling Kernel, the ability to > scale up to as many as sixteen processors, and have full Open GL > complience. My dream Lathe package would use multithreaded code for every > Lathe op- eration that could benifit from this architecture and take > SmartCAM's power- ful Advanced Turning and ease of use and combine it > with the best parts of Camand's Lathe pakage along with Camand's Multax, and > SDRC's NEW NT NATIVE multithreaded proprietary Solid Modeling Kernel to > produce the world's best 9 axis Mill-Turn CAM program for machines like > Mazak's Integrex MillTurn machines. > > Albert Moreno [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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