I bought a seat of BobCad 23 about 6 months ago. Then I found out what BobCad is all about. If you want tech support, that costs $600.00 per year. If you want training, that costs $600.00 per year. If you want to go to the training seminar, that costs $750.00. If you want printed material, you have to pay for it.

I think they spend more on phone calls than they do on product development.

I'll be happy to sell my V23 for $500.00 and be happy to be rid of it. Then I'll stick with my GibbsCam thank you very much.

Started on bobcad for creating tool paths, and forced our small company to give it up. We use Pro/E for modeling, and I honestly love Pro/NC now that we have it.

I'll quit before I use bobcad again.

HAHA !!!! Well, I still have this seat of BobCad for sale.. It is TOTAL crap and their customer service sux like nobody's business. I would think those guys read these posts too but could give a shit less.
I could write a book on ALL of the problems that I had with that pile of shit software but the kicker for me was the fact that even though we paid big bucks for "front of the line" tech support, I usually had to wait several days to get a call back from another "new guy" that didnt know how to use it either.

I always said that If I ever got face to face with that lying ass sales-guy,,, he wouldnt be laughing anymore.

Again, it's still for sale.. first 100 bux takes it.

Hell, I'll give ya a hundred bux for it, just to take a look at it.
Let me know if you want to do it.
Dave

I know a guy that bought it for 300, the full blown package, really! He did! They sure were quick to drop their prices.

I'd say that after reading your post...you can't seem to make up your mind if you like the software or not....
Did you ever pay for software yourself or did the company pay for it...sure I would love a seat of Mastercam X3...But I don't think that I can buy it for $300....After all you guys where the fools that paid $1500 for it...not me

I bought a used CNC knee mill going on two years ago. Bobcad called me out of the blue. They must have found me in the phone book or Yellow pages under automotive machine shops and took a shot. The less interested I was the lower the price got. The price got low enough so I bought it. I had zero CAD/CAM experience before buying Bobcad. It works fine for me. Sales people are a pain but you can hang up on them and you won't hurt their feelings...

CNC work is not my job, so what ever cost me less money is fine by me.

I worked in a shop that purchased BobCAD a few years before I got there in the late '90's. I was told the guy that sold it to them came in wearing overalls! They were cheap pikers and it was the only thing they could find that would interface with the punched paper tape on their wire EDM. We tried to upgrade it to direct download and never could get it to work. After I left, nobody else could operate it and they sold the wire machine when downsizing. We were also using it with direct download on 25 year old Bridgeports with Analaim controllers. Never could make it cut a curve -- we had to break down curves into lots of little straight line moves and then, if you got too many lines in the code, the mill would reject it. It was alright since the mills were mostly doing artwork, but it was a joke when making carbon electrodes to have to sand out all the little lines.

Thought I'd died and gone to heaven when the next shop I went to had AutoCAD.

I'm a engine builder and I recently bought some used equipment form a shop that closed it's door's. One of the machines is a Hurco KMB-I andIt came with v22 lathe,mill,art with v23 upgrade. I would like to produce brackets and misc parts any tips would be helpful and I have no cnc experiance.

Every BobCad product I owned to version 20 did everything it was sold to do.
It's common knowledge by now their salesmen are a pain in the ass,
and it is easy for new-commers to be ripped off.

But to dog this man's thread with with a freight-train of Ass-hole
comments is rude and unprofessional.
Are you guys that bad in person too, or just when hiding behind
the annonimity of the inter-webs.

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