Some CAD/CAM history
Cliff
Cliff
>WTF? ya can't run thin minimally shielded RS232 wires around
>the conduit that has 460V for the big ass arc welder in back?
The conduit is both grounded AND a Faraday cage, right?
And magnetic fields should cancel, right?
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Cliff
cncmillgil
wrote:
no canceling of cosmic rays batman, those sneaky bastards go through
damn near everything, except lead or gold? unless of course you "lost"
on the island<g> That SOB can do any freekin thing! WTH?
I had a service tech tell me about that years ago when the tape prep
teletype system kept crashing & burning. Oh cosmic rays, ya thats
whats doin it. He had them charted on a calender & matched them up to
the amount of service calls they were getting.
Oh man its almost April 15th! Fuckin huge cosmic ray up the ass day.
LMAO
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Gil©
Member of
==American Toolmakers==
using the "old world" ways
with yesterdays technology
building
Tomorrows Dreams
Cliff
>What's Significant And New In SolidCAM 2010?
>
>As per usual you can only get this information on the Jon Banquer
>blog!
>
>Cut and paste the link below into your browser and start getting the
>information you can't get in this worthless wasteland.
>
>www.jonbanquer.wordpress.com
>
LOL .... How long have they been that backward?
Plus you have no clues at all, as usual.
The OLD UG NC-Batch program with minor changes
20 years ago could run similar with priority ("nice"),
at a specified time or even on another workstation's
CPU (if allowed).
This just needs at least a dual core CPU, youbetcha.
Plus no nice or priority or time settings nor any bells
or logs or restart options .... What a hog!!
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Cliff
Cliff
>> Sell jb AutoCAD <G>.
>probably the most user available software in the world?
>who hasn't used Acad?
>use it to program a CNC? I dont think so.
IIRC There are quite a few third-party add-ons
to do exactly that.
Many are free IIRC.
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Cliff
cncmillgil
wrote:
They should be free! they, they just "automate" acad commands?
which begs the question: is lisp dead?
WTF cares?
anyone using it is in the "stone age" unless they are just "playing
around" with nothing better to do, not really concerned about being
efficiency & profitable. So its ok for "hobby lobby" use for those
that don't know how to use a scientific calculator?
Ok back to work all you AutoCad slaves!
Make that POS work!
I feeeeeeeeeel your pain! (slick willie clinton)
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Well little snot nose Tommy, that's about all the time
we have today for AMC
Auh gee uncle Lar, just one more?
No! little Tommy. Join us again tomorrow, same time same
station for another
amazing true life events of pioneers in 3D CAD/CAM history
~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~~o~~
Some people make things happen....
Some watch things happen...
While others just wondering WTF will happen
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Cliff
>On Apr 2, 1:16 pm, Cliff <Clhuprichguessw...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om>
>wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 04:35:01 -0700 (PDT), cncmillgil <mil...@cin.net> wrote:
>> >> Sell jb AutoCAD <G>.
>> >probably the most user available software in the world?
>> >who hasn't used Acad?
>> >use it to program a CNC? I dont think so.
>>
>> IIRC There are quite a few third-party add-ons
>> to do exactly that.
>> Many are free IIRC.
>> --
>> Cliff
>
>They should be free! they, they just "automate" acad commands?
>which begs the question: is lisp dead?
>WTF cares?
Ought to be fine for arcs & lines <G>.
Though I doubt jb could drill any holes.
>anyone using it is in the "stone age" unless they are just "playing
>around" with nothing better to do, not really concerned about being
>efficiency & profitable. So its ok for "hobby lobby" use for those
>that don't know how to use a scientific calculator?
Probably lots faster.
I used to have a calculator.
It was faster than COMPACT-II, all things considered ....
(in that specific work environment).
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Cliff
cncmillgil
COMPACT-II ?
Thank god I missed that era by just a few years.
Hmmmmmm
IIRC COMPACT was more geared toward business accounting? like COBAL?
FORTRAN was king for 3D, or for us simple people that aint that great
in math, BASIC was power.
Now its "visual basic" damn! VB - its visual (like I can't see) & its
basic?
Dont ya just hate it when your computer is missing a visual basic
file? sometimes .VBX
Keeping the current version was a major pain. 1 2 3? WTF?
Its no backward compatibility, which was also major problem with CAD
files.Once you've updated your data files to current software version
there's no going back. So, always keep a backup in the old version
because the new version crashes! Like that never happens.
--
Well little snot nose Tommy, that's about all the time
we have today for AMC
Auh gee uncle Lar, just one more?
No! little Tommy. Join us again tomorrow, same time same
station for another
amazing true life events of pioneers in 3D CAD/CAM history
~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~~o~~
Some people make shit happen....
Some watch things shit happen...
While others just say shit happens
~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~o~~~o~~
Cliff
>COMPACT-II ?
>Thank god I missed that era by just a few years.
>Hmmmmmm
>IIRC COMPACT was more geared toward business accounting? like COBAL?
See the MDSI stuff at
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3101/is_n6_v70/ai_20161041/pg_2/
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Cliff
Cliff
>Keeping the current version was a major pain. 1 2 3? WTF?
>Its no backward compatibility, which was also major problem with CAD
>files
ComputerVision had a PUT CADDS command.
It would run in CADDS IV (& IV-X ?) and output an
executable command text script which could be run in CADDS III
to (mostly) create a CADDS III model of the CADDS IV part.
With minor edits to the script to bring it to CADDS IV
language & add variables & logic you had a nice family-of-parts
(or design features) executable script with little effort.
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Cliff