Extinction

[neurosis]

Wow, thanks for the honorable mention.

I don't know if you remember, but I knew you long before I started using MC. I was a Cimatron guy back in those days and I remember flipping you shit about Mastercam. My shop forced me in to moving over from Cimatron starting in 2005ish and made it an ultimatum in 2008.

You've always been there if I had a question or needed help with something, and I appreciate that. That didn't stop with MC. It bled over in to TS as well.

[TSmcam]

I don't know if you remember, but I knew you long before I started using MC. I was a Cimatron guy back in those days and I remember flipping you shit about Mastercam. My shop forced me in to moving over from Cimatron starting in 2005ish and made it an ultimatum in 2008.

You've always been there if I had a question or needed help with something, and I appreciate that. That didn't stop with MC. It bled over in to TS as well.

I do indeed remember, especially because I had heard a lot about Cimatron, and was genuinely interested in it.

I definitely remember the shitflipping, but to be honest, it went both ways (and lets be honest, life is one big shitflip LOL).

The big thing about all of us here, is that we will help each other out. Doesn't matter where in the world we are. Kind of cool really. Especially given the different time zones, there is always someone somewhere drinking, I mean, er, working and ready to help LOL

[Newbeeee™]

To think that it's been 20ish years for me on EMC, some of you since the beginning (you guys can thank TSmcam for telling me about that place ) is pretty crazy.  I can't thank everyone enough. Not just for the help, but for the entertainment and the conversation over the years.

Thought of the day....
We're all here just passing through. Waste your time, wisely....

^^^^Repeat^^^^

[neurosis]

I definitely remember the shitflipping, but to be honest, it went both ways (and lets be honest, life is one big shitflip LOL).

Yes, it did.  That definitely wasn't a one way street. 

[gcode]

I was cleaning out my filing cabinet last weekend and found an old 1996 invoice from Machining Timesavers of Anaheim California.
It was for $6K (including a $3K discount) for a seat of TekSoft 2.5DMill and Lathe.
Gary Sladic came by and handed me a box with a half dozen 3.5" floppies.
My partner looked an me and said "You're a fucking moron if you paid 6 grand for that"

In 1998 Tek Soft off-shored their coding to India and the 1998 release was garbage.
I bought a seat of Mastercam late in 1998.

[kdg]

As long as we're strolling down memory lane...

In the early / mid 90's, the foreman at the small job shop I was at used TekSoft procad / cam.
I used it occasionally, liked it well enough.

I personally used SmartCam & Autocad at the time. DOS versions, IIRC windows versions weren't available yet. Modeling / drafting in Autocad (with AME) from back then is probably still more capable than the current Mcam. I also taught a customizing Autocad course at the local JuCo, LISP (aka lost in stupid parenthesis).

[neurosis]

I personally used SmartCam & Autocad at the time.

I was using SmartCam all the way up until about 1994.

If I had to relearn it today I don't know that I could. 

[Leehound]

My first Cad/Cam, late eighties: Powerstation for the win. MSC used to sell it.

[gcode]

My first was Anicam 1.0
13"  4 color screen
two 8" floppies  64K capacity (??)
one contained the executable file, the other was storage
no mouse, all commands were entered using the keyboard.
The 8" floppies only lasted a couple of weeks and eventually I couldn't buy them anymore
I threw the system away... which I really regret today.

edit I asked CoPilot about Anicam 1.0
the only thing that came up was my old posts on eMC

[kdg]

My 1st CAM was a custom program that ran on a TRS80 Model 2, black & white monitor, we even had the 3 disc expansion module, application ran off 1 disc. IIRC they were 10" discs.

Drip fed the programs (at 110 baud) to a Summit Bandit controller, attached to a knee mill.

[Newbeeee™]

Modeling / drafting in Autocad (with AME) from back then is probably still more capable than the current Mcam. I also taught a customizing Autocad course at the local JuCo, LISP (aka lost in stupid parenthesis).

Lisp was great - so powerful.
Easy peasy L= Line, F = Fillet, CP= Copy, ER= Erase etc
I banged a drum for an enhancement request that was supposedly high up the flagpole to integrate into mcam to enhance the customisable quick keys.... This was X7 and i'll be long dead before it's implemented....

[Newbeeee™]

I asked CoPilot

You running copilot huh....
https://x.com/gothburz/status/1999124665801880032

[gcode]

You running copilot huh....
https://x.com/gothburz/status/1999124665801880032

I asked Grok the same question and got surprisingly good results
I'm impressed

[Newbeeee™]

I asked Grok the same question and got surprisingly good results
I'm impressed

"As long as the graph goes up and to the right."

[gcode]

I asked Grok the same question and got surprisingly good results
I'm impressed

I've probably spent several hours over the years looking for info on Anicam 1.0 with zero results.
The free version of Grock came up with comprehensive results in about 20 seconds