Re: The Death Of Stand-Alone CAM Is Upon Us.
Cliff
>With the release of Delcam For SolidWorks the death of stand-alone CAM
>will start in earnest with everyone in the integrated CAM business
>benefiting.
How did you ever drill holes before?
Or did you ... ?
"integrated CAM business"? One could just start out with a CAD/CAM
system in the first place I suppose .... as we have done for decades.
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Cliff
Cliff
>On Nov 13, 1:34�am, Steve Walker <fusion...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Joe788 wrote:
>> > With the release of Delcam For SolidWorks the death of stand-alone CAM
>> > will start in earnest with everyone in the integrated CAM business
>> > benefiting.
>>
>> >http://jonbanquer.wordpress.com/the-death-of-stand-alone-cam/
>>
>> I doubt very much that everyone not using Solidworks will switch to a
>> package that requires both it AND Delcam. Many places use different CAM
>> systems for different machines. Why pay big bucks for another seat of 5
>> axis software if you have different departments with different machines
>> and programming requirements.
>>
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>> Steve Walker
>> Fusion...@verizonwallet.com (remove wallet to reply)
>
>I've given the answer to this question several times in these
>newsgroups and the answer is also given on Surfware's website as well
>as others.
>
>The answer is the the CAM vendor can sell you a copy of SolidWorks
>part and assembly modeler for dirt cheap if you buy their CAM...
>sometimes below $1,000 for just the SolidWorks part modeler. With
>assembly it's below $2,000 maybe even less by now. This version of
>SolidWorks doesn't have PDM stuff as well as the other crap that most
>machining job shops don't need. If this question continues to be asked
>I guess a page will be devoted to it on the Jon Banquer blog because
>I'm already tried of answering this same question over and over. This
>topic use to be covered on the CAMWorks web site. Not sure if it still
>is because I have very little interest in CAMWorks at this point. That
>may change.
It is SO nice that you have Surfware AND CAMWorks advertising for DelCAM!!
How about HSMWorks & Haas too?
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Cliff
Cliff
>Joe788 wrote:
>> With the release of Delcam For SolidWorks the death of stand-alone CAM
>> will start in earnest with everyone in the integrated CAM business
>> benefiting.
>>
>>
>> http://jonbanquer.wordpress.com/the-death-of-stand-alone-cam/
>>
>>
>>
>
>I doubt very much that everyone not using Solidworks will switch to a
>package that requires both it AND Delcam. Many places use different CAM
>systems for different machines. Why pay big bucks for another seat of 5
>axis software if you have different departments with different machines
>and programming requirements.
What if jb does not know more than trying to drill a few planar holes
(if that)?
What good would 5 axes do him?
BTW, Should not DelCAM know more about their software
than he does? Yet he claims ...
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Cliff
Cliff
>With the release of Delcam For SolidWorks the death of stand-alone CAM
>will start in earnest with everyone in the integrated CAM business
>benefiting.
Will your claimed employer now be dumping Unigraphics
on your say-so, yonnie?
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Cliff