Hello Jerry,
02-Nov-96 05:24:19, Jerry Myer did write to Ian Underwood
      Subject: SDRC
 >> Now what do you think of SDRC - netmail or another echo ?
 >> Err Cad-cam?
 JM> SDRC - just another overpriced, overdone program that is
 JM> never a finished product.
 Interesting - the 3D version or their 2D version. (They
 hang out in the UK near where I used to live and we have
 had some good demos.) It's a big commitment to buy one
 3D package "over" another - evaluated a few.
 If anything I'd have thought the "never finished" bit applied
 to all major programs including Acad but especially the their
 modeller rendition ;-)
 The biggest (commercial) pressure came from ProE and it
 wasn't nice to use at all.
 JM> With AutoCAD and AutoLISP you can
 JM> generate a toolpath and postprocess it with a conventional
 JM> postprocessor like SCLPOST which costs only $34.95.
 Now are you saying that I should consider Acad as a serious 3D
 modeller? I want something slick and polished with a nice
 interface that knows about surfaces, etc.
 Don't like the maintenance agreements tho' 
 I'm fed up with 2D modelling and having to draw complex surfaces
 and sections (particularly in side view) far better these views
 are auto drawn as soon as the depth information is given.
 Far better that a late design change doesn't mean a nearly
 total redraw of /all/ views.
 I'll be interested to read your/other_users' ideas/views on this. :-))
 -=> Ian >=-
Cheers!
Internet : ian.underwood@esoftc.seuk.com
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