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victorf57  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:12:14 PM(UTC)
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OK, viacad has been bought by Encore Software ?
what does this mean to existing users of viacad?
so 2 questions.
1- when can we expect a new version of vicad to be released ?
2- what is the price going to be to upgrade ?
thanks
Victor
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victorf57  
#2 Posted : Friday, June 11, 2010 11:21:16 AM(UTC)
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OK,
I'll reply to myself :)
It looks like vicad 2D/3D ver 7 is available, Price $99
Upgrade is $49
I thought it would be $19 but I was wrong.:)
Victor
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ttrw  
#3 Posted : Saturday, June 12, 2010 4:15:55 PM(UTC)
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Hi Victor.

I'm replying to you. :-)

According to this website here;

http://www.punchcad.com/products/viacad2d3d.htm

There is a all singing all dancing new upgrade to SIX available NOW! Huzzah!
:confused: Confused?, you soon will be baby! :cool: Have you got a link to this new upgrade- not that I'm upgrading now or later, it just would have been nice to have been told in a general post where the path for this upgrade lies. :confused:
;-)
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victorf57  
#4 Posted : Saturday, June 12, 2010 4:56:09 PM(UTC)
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Hello,
What do you know, someone else is interested :)
Here is the link I got my information from.
http://www.punchcad.com/products/viacad2d3dV7.htm
I have ver 5 of the 2D/3D I have been waiting for ver 7 But I was under the impression that you could upgrade any version to the current for $19.00
So I was shocked when I saw $49.00 for upgrade.
I belive that the pro is also $49.00, I don't know about any of the others.
I'm also confussed after following your link.?
Victor
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victorf57  
#5 Posted : Saturday, June 12, 2010 5:13:05 PM(UTC)
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Hello,
What do you know, someone else is interested :)
Here is the link I got my information from
http://www.punchcad.com/products/viacad2d3dV7.htm
I have ver 5 of the 2D/3D I have been waiting for ver 7 But I was under the impression that you could upgrade any version to the current for $19.00
So I was shocked when I saw $49.00 for upgrade.
I belive that the pro is also $49.00 I don't know about any of the others.
I'm also confused, after following your link :confused:
Victor
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Steve.M  
#6 Posted : Saturday, June 12, 2010 7:15:58 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: ttrw Go to Quoted Post
.....not that I'm upgrading now or later,


Why not?........ Not only do you get the old bugs, but you also get some brand spanking new bugs!! :D
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ZeroLengthCurve  
#7 Posted : Monday, June 14, 2010 10:21:55 AM(UTC)
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Gods, the trial release/availability was so quiet! I was so excited i inadvertently clicked on the V6 Pro hoping the URL was mislabled. It took maybe 2 hours (about 7kbps to 24 kbps, the about halfway thru, i managed to get 90 to 154 kpbs) to get 2D/3D.

I fired it up this AM and it CRAWLED. My system probably has other issues, but it took minutes to start, and then closing the open dialog (i forgot 2D/3D won't open .vcp, so i tried to close that dialog) and it crawled. I mulled task-killing VirtualBox, but didn't want to trash windoze's history of my open folders. Finally, i restarted (normally) win7 (in VBox, which is working fine for me) and this time, VCP was crawling. Just opening, not even dealing with a huge file. Might be something in one of the recent Linux-related patches.

Anyway, i'm looking forward to VCP 7's trial. I am not so anxious that i'm going to save-as multiple 30mb files to .vc3, though.

Anyone else get to try it out heavily? What things do you like? Not like?
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ZeroLengthCurve  
#8 Posted : Monday, June 14, 2010 3:10:16 PM(UTC)
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My apologies. I thought that VC2D/3D 7 trial would not open VCP files.

I just found out that it will. And, after rebooting my system and changing some things (like windoze' power settings) win got faster. Can't believe i had been a non-optimal setting in win7 for some time now.
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go3d  
#9 Posted : Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:25:53 AM(UTC)
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VC 7 still looks good value at $99 but the upgrade price is a big jump! Way to go Encore! :mad:
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ZeroLengthCurve  
#10 Posted : Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:15:37 AM(UTC)
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I want to go straight to VCP 7, not to 2D/3D. Mainly it's because when i open VC 2D/3D Trial and see some missing tools that Pro has, i feel i will not be able to do some solids and surface work i've become accustomed to.

Also, I copied over from my VCP install various setting that nicely came over to VC 2D/3D Trial. There is a sys or ini file that even brought over my list of "recent files". Was that so before? IF so, then i forgot that was possible.
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