Originally Posted by
irwinger
@FastFarmer - I must confess... Dolphin has been far less than stellar in answering ANY questions here in the forum or by direct email. In fact - now that I know I have to 'pay' for their 3D upgrade, Dolphin will be added to my list of bad financial decisions and scrapped in favor of the EVER so inexpensive options like HeeksCAD ($20) and ESTLCAM (I think about the same price). I have tried really hard to not say anything particularly inflammatory or negative about Dolphin in this forum - always holding on for that possibility that maybe I'm just not 'getting it'. But after my last attempt to do a cut and leave holding tabs that required I route through a percentage of an arch and do this numerous times... I gave up.
You want quick, simple and inexpensive 3D contouring? buy Dan Heeks HeeksCAD for $20. He's a one-man show in England who answers his emails on Christmas Eve. That guy is ACES in my books. I'm going to do whatever I can to help him. And the BEST part is - he uses the same 3D imaging / drawing libraries for his little application that Dolphin V13 does... except I can contour with his and Dolphin can't.
So there you go... I've now just dis'd Dolphin and effectively cut off ANY kind of support I might have had access to... oh well - I've been stewing and grumbling about this software since I bought it.
Arden