garyphansen
Titanium
- Joined
- Feb 9, 2004
- Location
- Traverse City, MI
Bob Cad fired their trainer, Soren and turned the job over to the owners son and it went down hill from there.
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You get bent out of shape getting a call every 3 months?? A call that can be concluded in 30-60 seconds. Bizarre
We bought it in the mid/late-90's for I think $500 at the time.Most of the people who have adverse comments about BobCad probably have never used it, either as a demo, or as a money making tool.
It used to be awful. It's pretty decent nowadays, especially for the price.We bought it in the mid/late-90's for I think $500 at the time.
It was.... awful.
Purchased Mastercam V8 shortly after.
We bought it in the mid/late-90's for I think $500 at the time.
It was.... awful.
Purchased Mastercam V8 shortly after.
Golf clap for BobCad. I complained about 4? years ago or more and on this board as well about how much more quickly I could draw simply 2d shapes in Fusion or Mastercam to then build off of for the 3d object( the starting shape) as well as "engineering" parts for myself or clients where I am deciding on the fly what I want the part to look like to not only look good but strong etc. Anyways I am looking at another software and waiting on a quote and I can't transfer my old V25...and never liked it. So I was bored and went on BobCad site so see what Version they are up to now(joke in there somewhere) and they finally added features like snap lines/points and going off of existing geometry. So at least some improvements for guys starting out or going off old napkin drawings. Stuff so simple in other CAD I was thinking...naw it could do that right..or was that the other software. I booted up V25 real quick and OMG the horror came rushing back. So yeah V35 may be worth pricing out now for some.
That is kind of funny to me as BobCAD cannot ever be compared to Mastercam and if someone does it stand to reason they just don't know how to use Mastercam I used both and am currant on BobCAD. For the money it is great software but not comparable.I'll also add that they are not like they used to be, sales-wise. I used to talk shit about them along with everyone else, but I feel like they have come a long way. When I started at the shop I'm at now they already had BobCAD so I was forced to learn/use it, and honestly I'm pretty damn happy with it. We use it for Wire EDM and 3 axis milling, not sure how well it would perform for more complex stuff.
My last job, which was primarily Wire EDM, over the years we tried Esprit, MasterCAM, FeatureCAM. I like the BobCAD best out of all of them (for Wire EDM anyway). I agree the CAD side is a little clunky, but we do all our geometry in ACAD or Solidworks anyway.
Have you used the Wire EDM module on Mastercam? It really kind of sucks.That is kind of funny to me as BobCAD cannot ever be compared to Mastercam and if someone does it stand to reason they just don't know how to use Mastercam I used both and am currant on BobCAD. For the money it is great software but not comparable.
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