mastercam draft....

[biss03]

Can anyone tell me if draft runs without the dongle or has it done it in the past? i'm using v8 now and it seems like when we first purchased mastercam (around v5 i think) it would work without the dongle.

 

i'd like to be able to work on design stuff at home without having to bring home the dongle and remember to bring it back the next morning. i usually drive to work and then wake up so remembering anything in the morning is tough!

[cadist]

Mastercam draft

If you are talking about Mastercam design then you do need the hard ware lock. CMIIW.

All mastercam products needs that thing. Even cimco editor won't run without it.

[Brad St.]

BISS, it works without the dongle and I may add it works well. You are limited to just wireframe and no surf or solids generation. You can however read in and verify surf and solids files or move enities, you just can't manipulate them.

 

It's well worth the money even in house if you have detailers in house that's if that's all they do.

[deeherk]

i have to ask...what is a dongle????

dan

[Brad St.]

The dongle is relative to the angle of the dangle contrived from the spindicularity of the perpendicularity of the thingy. Sorry, couldn't resist that one

 

The dongle is another name for the Hasp key for Mastercam.

 

HTH Brad

[biss03]

thanks for the reply's everyone.

[Rekd™]

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it works without the dongle and I may add it works well

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Where'd you get that version?

[cadist]

Yeah

All that runs without a dongle is demo.

[Brad St.]

Rekd, Mastercam draft is like the lite version or a glorified viewer. Not to upset anybody but the price of it has been discussed in this forum before and was in the range of what I paid for it up here.

 

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it works without the dongle and I may add it works well

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Just my sick humor dude, Draft does not need a dongle.

 

Check with your local reseller, it's really a great tool next to the demo for showing parts or viewing them with the added function of being able to draft (with the limits stated above).

[Brad St.]

This topic from the past:

 

http://www.emastercam.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...t=013579#000000

 

http://www.emastercam.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...t=011033#000002

 

Peace, this is not a pirated version

[Lee.]

Biss, When your done working on your projects at nite, then just put the dongle in your shoes or your lunch box.

 

HTH

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

+1 Lee !

 

I've gone as far as putting my car keys in the 'fridge so I wouldn't forget my lunch...

 

Certainly what you said will work great.

[Verisurf - Ernie Husted]

Draft is only available for Mastercam Version 9.0, after working with the mouse zoom wheel in 9.1 then going back to 9.0 sucks.

 

Draft is a great tool, no dongle needed, you can draw and save all types of wireframe geometry, it has problems with splines, no creating surfaces. but you can bring in surface files to analyze for quoting, reads MC9,IGES,etc. it communicates to CNCs (DNC).

 

Ernie

[Thad]

We have a seat of Draft (no dongle required) also. It doesn't run chooks either. It's good for viewing/analyzing, as others have said. I believe it has all wireframe/surface creation capabilitites, but solids with Draft are extra. Without getting into specifics, Draft without solids costs about 1/10 of Draft with solids.

 

biss, since there is no dongle, my guess is that installing it at home would be against the EULA.

 

Thad

[Verisurf - Ernie Husted]

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I believe it has all wireframe/surface creation capabilitites, but solids with Draft are extra. Without getting into specifics, Draft without solids costs about 1/10 of Draft with solids.

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You cannot create surfaces or solids with Draft, only wirframe and drafting. You can't run Chooks or addon Solids for Draft.

 

I think you meant 1/10 of Design without solids.

 

Ernie

[cadcam]

So every one knows draft Does not need a dongle Most statments about what it can do are correct except that you can get Mastercam draft 9.1 mr304 is the latest release.

 

Has alott of file converters like the Iges and will let you view fully shaded surfaced files.

 

Draft with solids would be Design with Solids as there are no extra options for draft at this time.

[Thad]

Ernie,

 

You are correct in everything that you said. Thanks for the correction.

 

Thad

[Verisurf - Ernie Husted]

Jay,

 

Do you have 9.1 Draft?

 

I will check with CNC Software on this, If your right, Thanks for the update

 

Ernie

[biss03]

thad,

 

why would that be against the eula if it doesn't require a dongle? if someone were to want to buy just a copy of draft - say a student taking a course at a local college, for the purpose of practicing at home they wouldn't get a dongle with it correct? i realize that it would be real practical for me to use it at home knowing what it is capable of other then for maybe creating some 2D tool prints.

 

can anyone else speak to the legality of this? i certainly don't want to do anything illegal.

[Brad St.]

I bought draft for my personal use at home. When I was in between jobs a couple of years ago that's exactly what I did with it was design with it. I even did a few mold layouts, with all the free downloads for mold bases and depending on the customers needs it worked real well for me. All the 3-d stuff came to me prepared, all I had to do was layout and dimension components.

 

Like I said above, for the money it's a great tool just to have at home for play or whatever.

 

Hoping greatly that X comes with one also, I've heard it may and it may not.

 

PLEASE PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT IT CNC!

 

Thanks

 

Brad

[Verisurf - Ernie Husted]

Hopefully Draft will be a free veiwer someday.

 

The industrial standard software needs a free veiwer

 

Ernie

[Smit]

We have four seats of draft. The machinists use them to draw geometry and find points.

 

My understanding of the Draft EULA is that having the disc in hand is the license. So we have purchased four discs to fulfill legal requirements.

 

Maybe the dealers who sell Draft can clarify this further.

[Brad St.]

+1000 to Ernie, if they could come up with something that would allow the parts or prints to be saved as a viewing file that would be awesom.

 

Solidworks e-files really spoil you and your customers with the versitility, power and functionality of it.

 

Maybe with X........

[Verisurf - Ernie Husted]

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So every one knows draft Does not need a dongle Most statments about what it can do are correct except that you can get Mastercam draft 9.1 mr304 is the latest release.

 

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I checked with CNC Software and they DO NOT have Version 9.1 Draft CDs, only Draft V9.0

 

Ernie

[Thad]

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why would that be against the eula if it doesn't require a dongle?

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biss,

 

I was under the impression from your first post that your company bought it and you want to take it home and use it. That would be similar to buying one copy and then installing it on multiple computers in the shop/home. I think you're only licensed to use it on one computer. While I installed our seat of Draft, I didn't read the EULA.

 

If I misunderstood your first post and you wanted to buy a seat for your home, then there is no problem.

 

BTW, what is that in your sig?

 

Thad teh 2 cents