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Dan,

I had not looked at Rhino Scripting at all. Based on what you wrote I
went and took a quick look.

Wow ! Very impressive !

Thanks for the heads up.

Absolutely nothing like...

Let me know if you want the .pdf's of Rhino Level One and Level Two training e-mailed to you so you can see exactly what I'm getting at.

jon

I'd like to think this is not true. Perhaps "Tekwrtr" would like comment on your observation ?

jon

Dan,

I actually think there are some similarities behind how Rhino and VX
are developed. There are also some very clear differences. I think
both VX and McNeel have put kernel development...

Dan,

In Rhino V4 have they done anything about toolbars management ? Do you
use any other CAM application besides WorkNC or Visual Mill ? The
reason I ask is that I like a lot about RhinoCAM...

All Gibbs manuals seem to me to follow the same format. I would
describe the format as definitions and described processes first then
many, many pages later *finally* give the Gibbs user examples...

I found that annoying as well. One other benefit of Flash CPR seems to be that the lighting and detail seem much better with Flash CPR (MachineWorks) vs the traditional CPR. I have not found any...

1. Thanks for posting here. Greatly appreciated.

2. I have always used the middle mouse button (the wheel) to zoom in and out in Gibbs and I never realized that if you hold down the middle mouse...

Well... our users prefer V17 because it's much more stable then V20 is. V17 does not have any scripting. I personally use V20 on occasion to give me an idea of what it needs compared to our other...

Yes. It's been a problem since V18. From what I can tell nothing has been done about it since V18. What I do is guess a lot and make use of the script recorder and then look at the code it produces....

With Visual Basic you can build stand alone applications. Machinist Toolbox is built with Visual Basic. NC Plot is built with Visual Basic (see the NC Plot Forum here on CNC Zone and give it a...

"yes the v20 while being made buy the same highly allergic constantly sniffling guy"

Too funny. You definitely made my day. Thanks !

jon

"And don't you just love when some ninny comes up and disturbs you so your train of thought runs off the tracks?"

It certainly takes me awhile to get back to where my mind was when this happens....

Besides the packages that have been suggested I would also suggest you look at Gibbs and FeatureCAM. Both are easy to use and well supported. You give up a the kind of control and cutting options you...

In other CADCAM systems beside BobCADCAM you always start by defining your stock size by filling in the X+ X-, Y+ Y-, Z+ Z- for your block size. This enables you to set the proper coordinate system...

I'm willing to give our original offical BobCADCAM V18 Videos away to the first person that drops me an e-mail and request them. Since they don't teach best practice modeling or machining I don't...

I've had several people tell me that the V20 videos take the same approach of going through the menus and trying to explain every command. This is no way to learn best practice modeling or machining...

I have the BobCADCAM V18 training CD's. I did not find them to be useful at all to learning good modeling or machining practice with BobCADCAM. Total waste of money.

jon

"I may have many...

Dan,

What did you not like about the N-Power plug-ins ? The UI seems a little funky. Was it that it was hard to use or you just have no need for a construction history ? Also, what about Variable...

Martin,

If the geometry is *not selected* you get a dialog box where you have to choose between Single, Chain, Region, Layer, Color, All. I would like to avoid telling BobCADCAM that Layer is my...

Scott,

Besides canned cycle support the two things that would really help me are being able make use of a tabbed interface and have multiple files open at once and being able to make a change in...

How about finding some prints and trying to create the code to machine the part ? Download NC Plot (See the NC Plot Forum on CNCZone) and use NC Plot to verify your code. No better way to learn than...

"PS: His company uses ProE for CAD. Is anybody familiar with their CNC offerings."

Pro/NC is very powerful and can take a good year of everyday seat time to get semi- proficient.

jon

"I may...

Is there a Level 3 Rhino Training manual yet ? Has one been announced ?

I'm suppose to have VX 12 here in a few weeks. Be interesting to see how far along they have come with the UI overhaul they...

"Bobcad is using older code in the user interface that has not been changed to new designs for a long time."

MasterCAM did the same thing... held on to their DOS user interface for too long and it...

"Sorry Jon. Just asking if you have anything you can post."

No reason to be sorry.

Given a better environment and more BobCADCAM users actually helping other users with best practice modeling...

Hu,

I loved the CAD end of BobCADCAM when it was DOS. The CAM end sucked. The CAD part of the program was freaking brilliant because you didn't have to use the mouse ! I never hear people say how...

"but... in the short time I've worked with it, I've experienced a few crashes and had to find a work around for something that I thought should have worked as is."

LOL

This is yet another...

"How bout you Jon? Got any to show us yet? Would like to see what type of work you and the others here are doing"

I'm sure you would.

The majority of work done in Phoenix, Arizona is for...

I almost always Blank out objects by Layer. When I hit the Blank out icon I would like to be able to skip the dialog box that asks whether you want to Blank out by Single, Chain, Region, Color, All....