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m.marino  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:35:51 AM(UTC)
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Solid CAM is offering a 30 free trial of their CAM software package for anyone who is interested. I am trying it out but do not own a copy nor do I have interest in the company.


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#2 Posted : Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:15:15 AM(UTC)
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Unfortunately - I believe I have experience with this product

Just walk away !
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m.marino  
#3 Posted : Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:52:09 AM(UTC)
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Jol,

I have to agree with you. It took less then 3 hours of learning and system work to realize that while it is a very useful program it is very focused on SolidWorks system and the learning curve versus cost and ROI is just not worth my time. CamBam, PhotoVCarve, and VCarvePro will do everything that I need in any material with any of the numerous bits I use and will still come in under half the cost of SolidCAM (most likely even less then that). All of them use public standards for their models/images which makes it much easier for me to work with a wide range of clients.

A lesson learned and not that costly, Just 3 hrs which I don't like having spent om a system not really usable to me. On the other hand I now know that SC and SW are truly in no way worth the very high price they are asking for them. Not when I have clients that use that can open up files I send them from ViaCAD. Nope not worth my money and no more of my time.

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jol  
#4 Posted : Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:35:10 PM(UTC)
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I wasted much more time - for which I'm sorry.

Glad you didn't !!
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tractionengine42  
#5 Posted : Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:02:15 PM(UTC)
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For what it's worth, sofar I have found meshcam for 3d and vectric2d have met all my requirements and found them very easy and quick to learn.

I am using stl files with meshcam and dxf files with vectric.

My stuff is not that complex though.

John
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mikeschn  
#6 Posted : Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:56:22 AM(UTC)
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tractionengine42,

What's the reason for using dxf with Vectric? Why not stl?

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jol  
#7 Posted : Thursday, October 25, 2012 11:30:25 AM(UTC)
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That's one of the reasons SprutCAM works for me - it drops it's tool paths directly onto nurbs data - not derivative triangles ... though you can fall back to this if necessary.
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posh.de  
#8 Posted : Friday, October 26, 2012 7:33:17 AM(UTC)
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What's the reason for using dxf with Vectric? Why not stl?

maybe because [URL="http://www.vectric.com/"]Vectric2D[/URL] is 2D only?

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mikeschn  
#9 Posted : Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:05:12 AM(UTC)
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Duh! Of course. Silly me!

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mikeschn  
#10 Posted : Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:11:11 PM(UTC)
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This just came off of Vectric Cut2D. :D

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