Dennis:
>>Well first off Art thank you for your work on Turn, but when i purchased Mach-3 and Lazy cam Lic i was promised turn would be working within 2 months that's been now over 3yrs in waiting and it wasn't free it's why i bought the program in the first place
Id like to see the promise. It may have been suggested that I hoped for 2 months, or that I intended to get there in a couple months, but even my wife will
tell you I generally refuse to "promise" anything. If she asks if Ill pick up something from the store I usually say "I'll try..", Im adverse to promises by personallity.
Those that know me well will tell you I very rarely promise anything, because when I do I'll move heaven and earth to live up to it, hence Im very promise shy.
It may have happened, but Id like to see the wording on it.. I suspect its more of an impression given from some responce done too quickly by me or one of my
minions at the time.
So Im sympathetic to a point, but when LazyCam was released, it was pretty clearly stated by me many times that the demo was
fully functional up to the point of posting code, and that anyone thinking or purchasing it should do so on the basis that what was there was
usefull enough to justify the expense as it is, not as it may become. I also usually pointed peopel to other products, SheetCam, AlphaCam, Solidworks, BobCam etc..
The Pro license in LazyCam was really a way to pay for the licensed modules that I began to use to do pocketing
and profiling, and I was pretty disappointed in their performance, which is what held up any further usage of them to do things more complex.
As Ive always told people, LazyCam is just a replacement for a very old DXF importer, which over time became very outdated,
I was always carefull to say any plans were not in stone and that if current level wasnt working properly for someone they shouldnt
get a license. However, that having been said, I do feel some responsibility to the Turners who wanted more capability than was there. Hence
LazyTurn will be free to those people that licensed Pro level in expectation of better performance. LazyCam, LazyTurn..any CAM product in the form
I do them will never pay for themselves, they were and are programs that strive to help out those who cannot ( or will not) pay hundreds if not
thousands of dollars on programs that are highly functional, but perhaps way too functional for the person needing a certain capabillity, and thus cannot
be justified on that basis. The 75.00 that LCam costs ( and then only for the pro level), is a pretty reasonable price for the capabilities it offers, and
I have gotten tons of email telling me that, as well as many who are disappointed in how it works for them. ( On the other hand, I have dozens of letters
on almost every CAM program out there telling me of disappointment in operation.. its kinda the nature of CAM, much harder to do than one thinks, even in
a perfect program ( if there was such a thing..).
I do understand though , that many are not ( or were not at the time ) involved enough in the community aspect of MAch3 to read what I said on
the various forums and such, and simply purchased on expectation, so hopefully LTurn will go some ways to making them feel better in that respect. It is
for those reasons that I began LazyTurn, and why I intend to simply give it to those that licensed LazyCam. Seems a good thing to do in retirement anyway.
So just so theres no misunderstandings on this project, Ill state it clearly," I promise nothing, I will endeavor to work on it as often as possible, and with the help of
those here testing I will make it as lazy and bulletproof as possible, but it will come as it comes, and develop as it does and as time and circumstance permits. With luck
and perserverance, as well as interest from users ( or potentiual users) the end result will be a usefull program that is hard to find a replacement for at a reasonable cost."
( You can quote me on that..
).
Dont take this as a rebuke, I just wanted to have this in posted form so anyone can openly see what the plan is, whats going on, and what the end result should be
if all comes together. I have some feeling of responsibility to bring up the level of Turning as well as some changes to LCam when Im done turning, but I dont feel too
pressured by those that got LCam thinking it was promised to be ready in any time frame, Ive always tried very hard to make sure people realise that CAM functions are
very difficult, and what people think of the end result is quite often very variable between people. Its the nature of CAM itself to be that way. A controler works
or doesnt typically, it flow is pretty linear, but CAM has the problem of trying to match the way a person thinks about a job.. its very hard to match expectation in that world.
Hopefully, in the end, I can match what yours are.
Art
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