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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'smartcam user group'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] New SmartCAM > Here is what a new Smartcam should have so that it could be affordable > and online faster. Strip FFM's modeling side, integrate Rhino for file > import, export, translation capability, and modeling. > Improve the tool management to current Windows stds, macro > capability enhancements, a Knowledge base function like Visualmill, > parasolid import like Visualmill, add more tool path methods including > Rest milling like Visualmill. I am using Visualmill now with Rhino as > the plugin modeler, heck, I have parasolids and the Knowledge base now > with Visualmill. People, the guys at Mecsoft already have all this for > 2k. Maybe EDS has waited too long for an affordable yet robust cam > software solution. FWIW, for the past several months Visualmill > bundled with Rhino has been on a $950. special that ends Feb 1st. > After Feb 1 Visualmill will return to 2k. Also, I bought Visualmill 2 > years ago without Rhino for $4,300.00 and still feel like I got a bargain. > Here is a link to the machining strategies in Visualmill today. > http://www.microsystemsgeorgia.com/amcnc6.htm > Michael > > > Douglas McDowell wrote: > > After the way we (users) were treated, I'm not sure I could trust any > > company to market a useful version of Smartcam. > > Before I buy back into it, there would need to be a major revision with many > > enhancements. > > If all they do is re-market V11 then it isn't worth a pound of rat @#$#. > > The competition has lapped smartcam many times over since any programmer > > looked at the code. > > There are still some things that smartcam does easier than the others, but > > there are things it never did, or never did well. > > If EDS were to develop Smartcam into a viable product it probably would be > > in name only. > > > > Douglas W. McDowell > > Systems Administrator > > Trigon Inc. FPD Company > > 124 Hidden Valley Road > > McMurray, PA. 15317 > > ph# 724-941-5540 x141 > > fax# 724-941-8322 > > Visit our website at http://www.fpdinc.com . > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kevin Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "John Gent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Pete Ruehle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > "'Smartcam User Group'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:07 AM > > Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] New SmartCAM > > > > > > > >>At 05:02 PM 1/29/03 -0800, John Gent wrote: > >> > >>>All, > >>> > >>>If this kind of thing occurred in the near future as a commercial > >> > > venture, > > > >>>would anyone buy the update and actually become a customer again? Some > >>>people have investigated doing this, but it does require a pretty > >>>significant investment to get it started. Some assurance from the > >> > > customer > > > >>>base that there is a market could help make it a reality. > >>> > >>>- John Gent > >> > >>I'm in! > >> > >> > >> > >>Kevin Clark > >>Programmer > >>Abbott Workholding Inc. > >> > >>====================================================================== > >>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] > > ====================================================================== > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Michael Gailey > Artistic CNC Mill, Router and Engraver Programming > 3D modeling for Product Design and Development > http://www.microsystemsgeorgia.com/toc.htm > > > > ====================================================================== > 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] ======================================================================
