Since we are dreaming, here, down the road 15-20years, or whatever: If I were designing a new, super-duper futureCAM software, I would make sure that it would seamlessly import those old obsolete SmartCam, MasterCam, EdgeCam, EtceteraCam, and back plot them all into the new system. This feature alone would make it verrrry attractive to those of us that have 1000's of legacy programs to maintain.
Douglass Boyd
CNC programmer
Cascade Microtech
Beaverton, OR
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan McCullough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 9:38 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [mfg-smartcam] buying smartCAM
thanks for everyone's input... As far as smartcam not running on future
hardware, I still have an old version of smartCAM from about 15 years ago
that is still running well and still producing code for the latest machines
around. I think your fears of some new type of hardware making hard drives
obsolete is not very realistic. And if in another 15-20 years that happens
then we will undoubtedly upgrade to a new super-MasterCAM or whatever, and
we will not have been paying for maintenance upgrades for all those years
and we will still have a software with macros and ease of use that still
surpasses the present crop. Any new improvements to new software seems to
be in the area of solid modelling and 3-d, which I don't need anyways... as
for re-creating programs, the new super masterCAM or whatever of the future
will undoubtedly be so easy to use that it will be a joy to re-program the
existing parts when drawing changes are made... just my thoughts, I could be
wrong as well...
Dan
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