What happened? I posted this message eight minutes before the one I received, but didn't get this one.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Payter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SmartCAM Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:36 PM Subject: Diagnostic window > Hi John, and all, > > Have done a bit of fiddling and found that if I start a new file with a > blank screen I can MERGE the 'corrupt' files in okay. The 'corrupt' files > that the customer sent me were all similar in that he had used SmartCAM > purely for drawing his tooling sheets, there was no cutter path and hence no > tools in the jof file. V11.5 didn't seem to like a completely blank jof > file! Merging the file in seems to work okay. Thanks anyway. > > On the other subject, rival CAM software, I can't get used to the fact that > they work differently to SmartCAM, and why should I, SmartCAM's way was > best. Why can't I alter the model without going to a CAD system? Why can't I > edit my cutter path? I don't want to pay lots of money for post-processors > that don't work the way I want. I don't want to delete my machining, edit > the shape and then re-machine it thanks, I want to do it the SmartCAM way. > > DELCAM:- "You can fill in the holes in the surface that you don't want to > mill but it will cost you an extra �6,000 for the CAD package." (That's > about $10,000 isn't it?) > ME:- "That's good then!" > > OPEN MIND:- "You can have straight line or arc lead-in-and-out on your > pocket walls but not both." > ME:- "But I've got Heidenhain controls and I can't put cutter comp on with > an arc move and I want to arc on to the pocket walls so I need both a line > and an arc." > OPEN MIND:- "Sorry. One or the other but not both." > > MASTERCAM:- I've challenged the local Mastercam guy to go head to head with > me on a 'drawing to code' demo and he won't, I wonder why not? (Apart from > this have only seen brief demo.) > > GIBBS:- Had two days training a couple of years back, looked good at surface > machining, (their shapes not mine), milling simple 2.1/2D pockets and > drilling some holes was very cumbersome. Simulation was appalling, but that > was a few years ago. Post-processors not user configurable. > > Long live SmartCAM. > ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
