How many using X only.

[Dan Kintzel]

X FOR SALE - CHEAP!

Back in it's box!!!!!!!

 

I've already posted my feelings on X enough already.....Back to Beta is my vote!

 

OUT!

[Dan Kintzel]

And another thing, I know that the 1st X update is out. (For at least 2 weeks now) So when the heck is it going to be released? Or is this going to go down the same road as the X release? I refuse to wait 2 F'in years for the updates as well.

If V9 didn't run like a clock and keep me pleased as it does, I would have pulled my stakes with Maintenance and CNC software a year and a half ago.

 

Sorry to vent.....

[El Scotthead]

I create all my goemetry in X, but am still trying to come up with a working post(reseller is helping, but they're swamped--oh well, good excuse for me to learn a little more about posts). My drawing speed in X is at least as fast as it was in 9, if not faster. I think I finally have it configured the way I like.

 

scott

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

50/50 Too much work due in a short amount of time.

I know 9 is bullet proof and there is No time for any mistakes.

[gcode]

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My drawing speed in X is at least as fast as it was in 9

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Spend a couple of weeks in X, going back to V9 will feel like someone broke your arm, but I still

miss single hotkey snaps.

[TyK]

I never did draw in MCam much in the first place, too effecient to do my CAD in Rhino. X may change that for me, its very smooth.

[Müřlıń®]

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Spend a couple of weeks in X, going back to V9 will feel like someone broke your arm,

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I heard dat....

 

I drive MC9 with my left index finger on the ESC key.....

 

Carple tunnel in my left elbow kills me all the time...arm already broken....

 

I know its from 3000 esc's a day

 

If I can ever figure out how to Use X I'm pretty sure my elbow will feel beter

[gcode]

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I know its from 3000 esc's a day

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get a 5 button mouse and program one thumb button for ECS and the other for Enter. That works well for X once you get your thumb trained.

[Dan Kintzel]

Beat that drum gcode......

[crazy^millman]

Just like you keep beating your drum huh????

 

Hum Gcode doing complex 5 axis forging in X and Lathe and 3d stuff in X and not bitching about the software.

[Charlie Pierson]

X-clusively here for a week or so.

Just cleaned up my last post today.

 

Do most of my geometry in KeyCreator (Cadkey).

Mcam Solids seems clumsy but that is most likely

learning curve

 

cp

[gcode]

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Beat that drum gcode......

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better that letting X kick your a$$

[Müřlıń®]

My first X project

Bigblock sumpthin' or other...

[g huns]

I have been short on time and patience for getting to know X. I have tried a couple of times to buckle down and stick with it but it just constanly pisses me off. What good is undo that won't undo? Why can't I setup my keyboard how I really want? Why don't levels turn off when I uncheck them? I haven't used any other CAM systems and my CAD experience is limited to Cadkey so I know I haven't seen it or done it all, but come on. I can't just click a level and have the geometery go on and off without leaving the levels manager? What a PITA. I know it will get better as I get better finding my way around but there just seems to be some features that other, even lower end, CAD/CAM systems have that we missing. The toolpaths are still good, but they are the same paths I can make in V9, maybe a bit faster on # crunching but not setting my hair on fire either. I'm sure I'll feel better when Moldplus for X gets here as well. In the meantime, I gotta stick with V9 so I can get some sh!t done.

[Dan Kintzel]

quote:

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better that letting X kick your a$$

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Yeh, that's the problem....

 

 

Take a poll, looks like the majority votes to problems more than production.

[DavidB]

After waiting so long (Paying Maintanece)and the only responce was while waiting 2 years "Its better to wait and get a Bug free X than release it early"

 

Not sure MC have one more poeple with this release

[Thad]

quote:

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I can't just click a level and have the geometery go on and off without leaving the levels manager?

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My salesman told us that we didn't need to exit the levels manager to see the new levels changes. I think he even showed us.

 

Thad

[RandleXX]

"undo that does not undo" is the main reason for not using X. It makes it very hard to experiment when I can't go back.

 

Maybe by the time service pack 5 comes out, the bugs in X will be worked out.

 

MC needs to invest a little more into programming engineers and less on sales hype!!

[john316]

After diddling around with it for the first couple of weeks while I finished hot jobs, I've been on X exclusively for a week. Now when I go back to 9 to look at a job that is being run I feel like I did when I first started X.

 

I have to say, now that I have gotten comfortable with X, I like it a lot better than 9.

 

All you hardheads hang in there, it gets better.

 

Kevin

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

R_XX,

'less on sales hype!! ' , sales hype??

 

As a MC dealer and long time MC user I can say that 'sales hype' is the least of CNC concerns and if anything it is something, as a dealer, I think they need to be more concerned and deliberate about.

 

I think that overall they did a very poor job at building interest, promoting the product and release, and generating marketing materials. Come on, dealers have not even received brochures for Version X yet.

 

CNC has been way to busy building and testing a brand new architecture for the product to push us into the next generation of MC.

[Charles Davis]

I've been using -X exclusively for the last month. I have a small mill, so I've been making a LOT of parts (2D and 3D) with X.

 

I hate going back to v9 now. Once you get used to it, X is a very nice place to work.

 

There are still a few things I want to see changed in X, but there is no way I'd go back to v9 if I could.

[jeff]

I haven't had a whole lot of time to play with it,but I try to use it when I can.