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A sad story, and quick review from a noob that just got an old mill up and alive; A few months ago (mind you, I have little to no experience w/ CnC), I acquired an old Dekker (Leadwell) MCV550D for about scrap rate, fixed a watchdog alarm and bad spindle board. Not being super proficient with G code. I was in the market for an inexpensive Cad/Cam combo that could help with posting and drip feeding. I decided, at 495.00, to give Dolphin a try-looked appealing enough. WHAT A MISTAKE!! After 4 Pc's (Kept being told it was inferior computer) and about 15 different downloads; Not one came across without corrupt files, missing.dll's, or critical errors throughout. (Not one worked correctly) Of course, when shopping the phone was answered everytime promptly.
After the card cleared, the salesman (tech, customer support-all the same dude) Was impossible to reach and never solved one issue. The post processor was impartial, and didn't work all that well (Fanuc 10ma). I modified it myself to work, with a constant tool change edit. On the Cad side, it was difficult to use considering it was such a basic program, things did not convert to NC correctly, merges and fillets and chamfers left choppy gaps you couldn't see and couldn't clean up. So, when finally sorted through manually, (after hours of fiddling for a simple part drawing on a single plane/layer) when opened in cam, geometry wasn't support/consistent by the function intended, tools available for tasks were very limited and needed 'tricking' example modified drill dimensions and operation for a simple hole chamfer.
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When the post was generated from the cam there was inconsistent and random lines of operation included. Driver Flashpoint Beta 600. You could save one, open it again in cad, change nothing, and re-post, and it came out different! For no apparent reason. It broke a few endmills, and often just randomly would rapid to the emergency limit of X and Y. We decided to throw in the towel after 3 months of messing with it, and not receiving ANY support-just excuses and computer blame. So the day came to ask for a refund-of course nothing So this week it's on to Bob Cad V27 Already 100 times better, but It'll be interesting. I have yet to be able to proof dripfeeding and am not even sure if I have things right for it yet (Couldn't get that far with Dolphin) I advise anybody looking at Dolphin to RUN!!!!!
It has been the singlemost worst mistake I have ever made in my life that was computer related. Yeh Hai Jalwa Movie 3gp Video Song Download. Sorry about your frustration, over the years I've had similar experiences with a couple of cam software tries (not dolphin). Similarly, we use an old milltronics Vmc and a Bridgeport interact kneemill for prototyping, not a production machine shop.
I purchased the standard mill package of Visualcadcam a couple of years ago and have been very satisfied with it, and support is good. I don't use the modeling too much, since I work in NX and import step files (2d and 3d); the modelling looks and works pretty good and seems to be improving with each release.