X3

[cnc@gci]

I'm thinking of switching from X2 to X3. Just curious if you guys like it or not. any feedback would be cool.

[Fig sign]

I installed it and play with it from time to time

but I decided that we will wait till sp1 at least

[peon]

The verify is much faster in X3, but I'm not impressed with the rest of the package. Crunch times have not been improved AT ALL and we have a few new bugs that weren't present in X2MR2. It might be wise to wait for the first service pack for X3 before you install. I'm not trying to start a flame war here, but that is my honest opinion.

[Jayson Kramer]

You could do a side by side and play. I have been programming parts with it for about three months and say it is good to go.

[gcode]

We've got 3 programmers running X3..

no issues so far

Keep this in mind though.. once you start toolpathing in X3, you can't go back

You can save geometry back to previous versions,

but not toolpaths.

[Guest]

X3 is fine I've been programming in it for months.

 

However IMO, if you're "really" worried about moving up, maybe you shouldn't.

 

Just one man's personal opinion

 

I always dive into the next release with unabandoned exuberance.

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

If not now when?

[gcode]

I think CNC Software is shooting for a mid October

service pack release

[Thad]

quote:

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I think CNC Software is shooting for a mid October

service pack release

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An October surprise?

 

I have not installed X3 yet. At my last job, I was the "MC administrator." I installed/updated all 7 seats of MC. I could afford to investigate and solve problems back then because all machinists programmed and ran their own programs. Where I work now, I'm the only one and can't afford the down time, especially with the dwindling support here at the forum. I'll wait for SP1.

 

Thad

[Lars Christensen]

I installed it at home, spend about 1 hour going through "whats new" PDF just to confirm that there are bug's there too, but did not have any crash's. So I installed it at work, and have been running it for a couple of weeks without big problems.

 

I do not make my boss pay maintenance for then sitting waiting months for SP5 release, and if things go's bad, pop in the X2 disk.

[CDL2042]

One thing to consider, if you have older computers you may have to update the computers and/or windows to get X3 to run on them.

 

We updated right away, and the guys in the shop were still on X2 and now they can't open the files unless we save them out as X2 files.

 

Looking back on the decision to update right away, I would have waited. There is nothing great about X3, and if it is going to cause other problems it is not worth it. Another disapointing mcam release.

[VinnymeSr]

I think they should of change the extension on X3 to something else other than .MCX like .MC3 or .MX3. If you have X2 and X3 on the same computer; it makes it difficult because it associate X2 with X3 went you want X2 to come on.

[cnc@gci]

Thanks for the feedback guys.