Roland Jollivet wrote: > Gotta agree. Pricing is one of my pet banes. Try find the price of SW, > Autocad or similar package on the net. They want all sorts of details first. > Crikey, one can drive past showrooms all day seeing the price of cars which > start at the order of 3 x as much. So why the secret. > > I truly wish some company would bring out a 'real' CAD/CAM package at 1/5th > of the price and blow the others out the water. > Well, someone actually did. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be going very well for them.
I bought CadMax Solid Master <http://www.cadmax.com> about 5 years ago. It's a real parametric solid modeling package, with a dynamic feature tree (much like SolidWorks), import/export of several formats (though unfortunately IGES costs extra), and fully associative sketches and prints. That last bit means that you can change a measurement or location on a sketch, and the model will automatically update, including any affected dimensions in the drawing/print views. It costs $300, plus another $500 for IGES import/export if you want that. It seemed that the company had gone out of business for a while. The website was unavailable for several months. This was a concern for me, since the software is apparently node-locked by MAC address and volume ID. I had to get another unlock key when a hard drive died. I don't think there have been any updates in the last few years. The software is quite full-featured, though the user interface is a little bit strange by todays standards. (things like rotation of the model being a function, rather than a middle-drag or similar) It's not a CAM package at all, but it can export to various formats that are supported by CAM packages. - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
