Mark, How about some more information? Exactly what specific CAM enhancements are included in the I-DEAS 8 release?
Regards, Mike McCool -----Original Message----- From: Mark McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 8:56 AM To: Albert Moreno Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] mfg-smartcam Mr. Moreno: The separate Camand products continue to be available but we offer product bundles that include I-DEAS capability that are more attractive from a price perspective. Two release cycles ago SDRC made some bold decisions based on the market input we were receiving from our customers and VAR partners. Those customers and VARs were demanding functionality requirements that would be impossible to meet while attempting to develop three separate products. Many of these expectations were based on environment capabilities that are inherit to the I-DEAS product family. It was also evident that the future would present a market that would expect solids based machining capabilities that were integrated and associated rather than just interfaced. It would also not be a wise financial business decision to continue to have these valuable and talented developers continue to enhance products that developed a relatively small revenue stream. This is why the development staff that created SmartCAM and Camand were reassigned to develop new functionality in I-DEAS Generative Machining. The progress this has made possible is evident in I-DEAS 8. I-DEAS 8 is the first release to benefit fully from the efforts of the reassigned developers since during the development of I-DEAS 7 SDRC also released four versions of Camand and SmartCAM. I-DEAS 8 is set for first customer shipment next month and includes more specific CAM enhancement than any prior release of SDRC CAM functionality. Mark McCoy Marketing Manager - CAM SDRC Albert Moreno wrote: > > 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] > > ====================================================================== > 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] ======================================================================
