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Mick

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  1. 1 hour ago, gcode said:

    If you know anything about Okuma lathes, you'll know

    their canned roughing/finishing cycles are world class.

    Totally agree.  Their turning cycles had quite a lot more capability over Fanuc canned cycles in the early mid nineties, and I believe continue to do so.

    Their IGF onboard programming produces code bloat, and has some limitations that only CAM (or CAD for coordinates) can solve, but like you, I know several shops that use it over CAM.

     

  2. 22 hours ago, gcode said:

    We've had some heavy rain recently and a giant sinkhole across the street ate a large power transformer.

    The power company has been working to repair it for a month,

    They were supposed to shut power down on the whole block last Saturday night for the final hookup, but got called out to an emergency

    and didn't get it done. 

    This morning,  they informed us that power would be shut down tonight at 1AM  and would be off for 9 hours minimum. 

    Obviously, the shop can't run tonight or tomorrow, but 1 phone call to CCC and they delivered 3 temporary Mastercam software licenses

    an hour later.

    My guys can work from home tomorrow, get a one day jump on the shop  and not miss any time .

    Great service !!!

     

     

    That is a how a good or great reseller should respond. Kudos! I've heard nothing but good things about CCC.

    I did something similar for one of my customers. They were going to have an outage for anywhere from two days to five days. I generated them one month loaded licenses (five in total) so they could work from home, or anywhere. I've been at the business end of crap service, so I know what is expected :)

     

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  3. I had a customer mention this to me some time last  year. He had drunk the Kool Aid, and he kept telling me that a) It was a cost effective option, as he could use Fusion 360 combined with it, rather than spending money on TopSolid. b) He could hire new graduates out of University and pay them cheap rates, or even have his son come in after school and do programming for the company. I did insinuate that using those strategies wouldn't work so well, in my opinion.

    Now, almost twelve months later, he is advertising for skilled programmers, and he's ditched Fusion.

    The kool aid jar was empty :)

     

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  4. 4 hours ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

    Whenever you feel bad about buying Fanuc options, remember there's a poor Okuma guy somewhere who didn't get negative tool comp....

    Indeed. We have been caught out on that with our B400W and the U3000

    And to add insult, you can't control the the chip conveyor with an M code. At all. We had our technician look at it, and nope...

    The P200 and P300 controls are nice, but seriously there are a few options that should be standard....

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  5. 29 minutes ago, MrFish said:

    2023 has been very stable and some nice features. Just started using 2024 in anger and have found and reported a number of bugs already, plus the handling of fixtures for verify/simulation is very cumbersome for our work flow. So if its a time critical or intensive programming part its still done in MC2023 at the moment.

    It must be horrible having cumbersome handling of fixtures and workholding in verify/simulation. Or toolpathing for that matter. *cough*

    😀

    Sorry, couldn't resist :)

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  6. Purely from a user perspective, I have used MC, Unigraphics/NX, Solidworks, Inventor and then finally, TopSolid, in that order.

    When I was a Mastercam user, I did some pretty hefty modelling in it, such as injection moulds, impellers, Impeller Blade dies, and all manner of 3D prototypes. I always stated that it was a good capable modeller, even in the pre Solids days.

    However, once I started using Unigraphics etc, I realised how much more productive full blown CAD modellers are, especially when making changes. Not to mention freeform modelling (notably variable fillets, and surfacing functions).

    However, while I was comfortable with Unigraphics/NX, I never got to grips with Inventor or Solidworks. Both those applications I really disliked using. When I started using TopSolid, I found the modelling and assembly management really good. Very easy to use, and very capable. What I find interesting nowadays, is when shops get TopSolid for programming (and have designers using Solidworks), once the design staff check out TopSolid, they always have positive comments about it, and to the point that the designers start to look at TopSolid closer.

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  7. 5 hours ago, neurosis said:

    The software is really good.  I couldn't in good faith recommend it to smaller shops like ours.  If  you're in a position that you can absorb the added costs the software is pretty amazing.

    It is a shame that you got dealt that way up there. Kind of the reverse down here. MC representation down here is well..... meh.

    As you know, down here I handle it differently :)

    Since moving to TS, on the very rare occasions I have to use MC, I find it slow. Not because I haven't used it in a while, but because the workflow is cumbersome compared to TS. Plus, as you pointed out, being spoilt with the full blown CAD makes life so much easier, especially when working on anything from tool assemblies, fixtures, or even kinematic machine models. Everything uses the same engine.

    If you had been handled differently, and better, you would have gone from strength to strength with TS and the purple Hasp would have been a distant memory LOL

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  8. On 6/23/2023 at 7:09 AM, Jayson Kramer said:

    I have used both and setup both systems of Predator and Cimco. I Prefer CIMCO. predator is not bad.
    Shop I am in now I sold them Predator early 2000. if I had my choice I would go to CIMCO.

    Both software's offer a lot of the same tools  and options.

     

    Shop I am in now?

    Are you no longer with CNC Software?

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  9. 58 minutes ago, cncappsjames said:

    I turned 53 in December... dang I'm old. :rofl:

    I feel like I haven't been doing it long enough. :rofl:

     

    :coffee:

    Pfft, schoolkid... I'm 57 next January. 😆

    Hah, yeah, I look at these weenies getting all excited in Fusion and think "meh"...

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  10. 43 minutes ago, byte said:

    You could compare the version of vc++ runtimes installed on each machine, maybe some component is built in vs2013 or lower,

    I think the default windows installs with vs2015-vs2022 runtimes installed

    You could try downloading the vs2013, vs2012 runtimes as well and see if that makes a difference

    Also, I would try installing a later version just to see what happens,

    Latest supported Visual C++ Redistributable downloads | Microsoft Learn

    Thanks. I'll give that a go.

    If I can't get it to work, I guess I can just leave it installed on my tablet. I really only need it installed for legacy files anyway.

  11. Does anyone here have Version 2019 running in Windows 11?

    I've tried installing it, but I get the following error:

    Error 1935. An error has occurred during the installation of assembly component (C47FA2DB-7CCB-4AF7-8ECA-380C3D137511). HRESULT: 0x80070005

    It then rolls back the install, and doesn't complete. I tried removing it, and then installing the latest Hasp update drivers, but still get the same issue.
     

    I switched off Antivirus, and tried running the install in various compatibility modes.

    I just want to install V2019 to provide some access to legacy data we have, as 2019 is the last version we qualified for.

  12. 15 hours ago, cncappsjames said:

    Support, support, support. Even large nationwide/worldwide companies have dealers that are weak and others that are strong.

    I have a customer with operations in multiple states(same dealer, different territories) , for one of their machines (EDM) the support in one state is superb, and the support in the other is nearly non-existent, bordering on dreadful.

    Agree 1000%... That goes for anything, Machine tools, software, cutting tools, workholding blah blah blah.

    Having experienced absolute !@#$% support, I make the effort to go the distance because I know what it is like as an end user needing to get something sorted quickly. And machine tool support is paramount.

    I even provided support to a company the other day, new to the CNC game. They were using Fusion, and couldn't get the right code. Turned up on site, put together a couple of test programmes, found the root cause of the issue (actually two, one was the Fusion post, and the other was the machine tool/setup), gave him the information to give to both of his suppliers, so they could fix the issue. Now he is happy.

    Yep, do your research on support. Some of us are lucky that we can call on esteemed colleagues in the USA of course *cough* James *cough* LOL

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