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Discussing CNC Machine tools.
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CADCAM Reality Is...
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only partly evident in this thread:
[link]
You can't have quick, powerful and efficient CAM without powerful
CAD.
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Handling Multiple CAM Programming Jobs
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It really helps when you have the right tools. Tools like built in PDM
rather than external PDM or no PDM at all.
Here is a screenshot of what the right tools look like in a modern
CADCAM system where PDM was built in from the get go rather than as an
afterthought. PDM should be effortless and transparent.... more »
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Wiggle room in new machine pricing....
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Awl -- Ie, discounts....
If the base price of a machine is $90K, with about $15K in options (rigid tapping, larger carousel, renishaw, programmable coolant, etc), how much wiggle room is there in the bottom-line price?
How does one gracefully, visavis combattively, negotiate a discount?... more »
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Damn Jon you are a funny little man
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Jon you have a rep as the internet moron did you know that. Your
opinion means nothing since you have zero experience to back it up,
playing with a free demo on your couch does not count. You sure think
a lot of yourself but in reality Jon no one thinks of you as anything
more than a joke. No one is following you for advice unless they... more »
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15,000,000 lb. machine...... dolla a pound.....
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Awl -- Today, on How It's Made, "Monster Machines", a 15,000,000 lb dirt shoveler is only.... $15 Mil !!
Truly, a bargain at twice the price. A dolla a pound on heavy machinery is, like, a HF price... :)
Affordable cnc stuff is, like, $6-$10/lb, but then not for fifteen million of them... so I guess volume discounts apply....... more »
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