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Yes I will say Bobcad has come a long way from V2007

Sprutcam and Dolphin are two software that the user of each both like a lot...
Tormach is now offering on-line support for Sprutcam...so that something a new owner/user of Tormach might want to look...

Tormach is a re-seller for Alibre...where it says on-line meaning it must be purchase on-line threw Tormach


Alibre Xpress 3D CAD
Limited Editing Features. Good tool for learning CAD. Online ...

Tormach sells Alibre $500-$750 for the pro version...Tormach also sells Sprutcam and just started a support deparment for Sprutcam....Sheetcam comes with the machine free for the first 150 lines of...

what software to get with the tormach,turbo cad/cam,or sprutcad/cam,does it come with mach 3?

Yes The Tormach comes with Mach 3
and get what ever software you want

Hobby Pro is V19

contact support you need to update dongle. the software is not reading the Dongle key

If you paid $1600 for V22 then your a bigger fool than I thought...
The Tormach is not a hobbie mill...just a small mill...Last year I made over and reported $65K of of a $12k investment....in the...

BurrMan don't let Toby get to you...he is one of the guys that thinks he is a big time programer and is just a machine operator....He does not even have V23....

You have the option of starting the path on the inside and machining outwards or you can start on the outside and machine inwards...you can also set a rollover distand from part edge..If you use a...

you may have had a bad download...this issue was fixed...maybe you should try a complete re-install

Only the people that have not done the update to V23 have this issue with a scale factor of 25.4... as it was fixed in last update

It not just Bobcad that has an issue with nvidia cards
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10000353-1.html

"The issue is a weak die/packaging material set, which may fail with GPU temperature...

when was the last time you updated...there was a fix to this as it is a know issue about cutting threw islands in pocket? What build are you running

So your issue is not ramdom or intermitted...only on first start up after entering Mach 3...Do you have other programs that maybe opening on PC at the same time?...I put a thumb drive in one time...

The type of issue I had with my motor because of a bad crimp was not a cold connecting just a bad crimp job....My motor would only fail every once in a great while until the wire was burned enough to...

some where you have a bad conection...if you had a short in the coil,motor or VFD it would be a constant issue...with a bad conection particals build up and then blow off at time of short....making...

is the door safty switch part of the circut?....intermitten type of problem are almost always a wire conection...I hate looking for those issues...I thought all my wire conecting where tight and they...

Have you check to conecting at the spindle motor....the wire are just crimped ...but they don't twist wires before crimping which can cause an intermitten type of promblem...If you have a bad...

Just Gary I do think that Sprutcam is worth the money... it is better on 4th axis than my software...But a step up would be Visaul Mill Pro...But at a large cost and a yearly fee. They do have some...

Take a look at Visual Mill Pro for mecsoft it is about $3,500 full list...you could get it for less I sure in today market...
What I like about VS Pro is that you can do full contouring on a 4th...

I really don't think you can teach anything or make a judgment on my abilities with just one post mactec....I also don't waste my time trying to teach someone over a message board...I either go on...

H=Hight Offset...



Mactec in the last few years as an Appoved Independent Consultant for Tormach... I have help a lot of people get started...I will always explain where you can get to when...

you can have many hight offset H # for the same tool...you just can't change the H# without using G49 and going to a G28 move first...this is done when say you have more than one fixture offset of...

I just find it faster and easer not to use the tool tables. I have modify my post so it does not output any G28,H,D,G43....Just load the tool touch offset set zero and run....This works for me as the...

Burrman you and Don may want to try Rhino...curved surfaces are their strong siut...You can do them from splines and points

Well we found something that we agree on...

Toby I could never be Jealous of you...I just get a real laugh of of you...As a good friend of our has said many times... you're just a "copy paste king"

from what I have read Rhino seems to be a very good solid surfacing tool...But I think that is thier strong point...But I do like the option Toby pointed out... as there have been more than one time...

Burrman that a great Idea...Toby could show us his advanced programing skills...as all his post point out that he is an expert in solid modelling


This is a very good feature maybe bobcad could...