#How i do 3d in bobcad 21 upgrade#
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As you can see from the attached e-mail correspondence, we have tried to work with your technical staff to make the purchased software work. Pendleton: This is more of a gross disappointment and total frustration complaint than anything else. E-Mail from Dave Cassel to dated 11/15/13 requesting a refund based on fairness. E-Mail from Elainea Perez to Dave Cassel dated 11/29/13, same subject, e. Notice from bobCAD-CAM Refund Department to Dave Cassel dated 11/26/13, d. E-Mail from Sean Owen to Dave Cassel dated 12/02/13, same subject, c. E-Mail from Dave Cassel to Sean Owen dated 12/02/13, same subject, b. Lawrence Pendleton, President/Executive Director, BobCAD-CAM, 28200 US Highway 19 N., Suite E, Clearwater, FL 33761, RE: Refund Denial, REF: a. This however by policy and end users license agreement, which had been agreed to, does not justify a refund.'ĭecember 5, 2013, Mr.

What we can do for you is get more details on what you would like the software to do and forward this to our development department to enhance the software. There are recent better methods to handle these shortcomings. As you can see, this is a known shortcoming of the iso-planar tool path.

This causes redundant tool paths in the associated flatter regions and results in lower machining efficiency. However, it suffers an inherent drawback: in the region where the direction of the surface normal is close to that of the parallel intersecting planes, the intersecting plane intervals have to be reduced because of the influence of surface slopes. The iso-planar (Cartesian) tool path generation method has been used for several decades. Here is a non-partial scientific article that describe the issue that you are encountering. The software that you are comparing to offers more than just a planar option but also describes methods for handling a constant cusp height. BobCAD-CAM advertises that we offer a planar tool path. It is my opinion that there are other CAM software companies that provide both a better product and much better service for their product than BobCAD does. BobCAD refused to refund our money, saying it was not their responsibility to understand what their software would not do. This experience suggested to us that the ability of the add on module for 5-axis machining to generate useful code, where the physics and math is much more involved, would also be in question.

#How i do 3d in bobcad 21 code#

Below you will find the timeline of our suffering as we attempted to get BobCAD to generate code to machine this relatively simple part successfully. BobCAD failed miserably at generating code which would create a useable part. The first part for which we attempted to generate code was a 3D contour part which we had been machining successfully for years with code generated from the software in use prior to our purchase of BobCAD.

#How i do 3d in bobcad 21 upgrade#

My company purchased the 3-axis BobCAD-CAM module to replace the 3-axis CAM software we were previously using and to upgrade to a CAM product with an available 5-axis programming module.