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Promote and discuss your product / Re: Learn the truth about BobCAD-CAM

« on: February 02, 2013, 03:25:14 PM »

Yeah, and the reason that guy is smiling up there is because he is busy surfing with all the money people spent on that crap.

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: Learn the truth about BobCAD-CAM

« on: February 02, 2013, 03:23:02 PM »

Sorry to hear that.  Those guys never sent me a link to there demo.

Good thing though.  I downloaded a demo of AutoDesk Inventor LT, and a demo of SolidCAM's InventorCAM that integrates with Inventor LT.
I was able to create 3D shapes, and then use InventorCAM to profile, pocket, drill, etc.

With the default machine type I exported the GCode to Mach3, did a find/replace for  :  to  O, because they used colons for the subroutines, and it ran in Mach 3.

This was the only demo product that actually worked for me.  30 day demo for both products, so you can create a bunch a G-code to see if it works for you.

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: Learn the truth about BobCAD-CAM

« on: January 27, 2013, 09:25:43 PM »

From the website...


Forums

Posted on: January 18th, 2012 by Autumn


By popular demand, BobCAD is upgrading our forums software to a more robust and user-friendly package. Check back later this week and it should be ready.

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: Learn the truth about BobCAD-CAM

« on: January 27, 2013, 09:18:01 PM »

I see alot of fancy pictures and neat parts, however, I tried to register for the demo, never got a link to the demo software.
I found a link to some software, looks right, but I notice files are missing when I tried to follow the Bobcad V25 manual.
Went to download post-processors, the webpage wouldn't let me choose a version of Bobcad.

So far, I am only slightly more impressed with Bobcad than Visual Mill.  Visual Mill's demo with FreeMill crashed my VMWare when I loaded an autocad drawing.

I would love to believe in Bobcad, but unless I can see a demo that isn't missing files, can take a basic autocad file with a block with a couple of holes and turn that into G-Code,
I'll never spend money on it.