CompuServe Messages

Tim, <<I've been using AutoSurf, I hope programs like SDRC and ProE work better. Designer and AutoSurf are nice, along with Cadkey Advanced Modeler, but don't seem as powerful as what I would expect.>> Indeed they pale in comparison. My only admiration for them is that they seem to accept my Pro-E models without a whole lot of fuss and I am therefore able to use a divergent set of products across various OS's and provide tooling ready models, really nice images, CNC'd models, STL etc etc all with the most unlikly set of tools. <<I just got AutoSurf 2.1 for R13 from AutoDesk. Do they distribute i>> If you mean does Adesk distribute what was left of the package (Millmaster"; the machining component, I don't think so. In fact I had heard from an unreliable salesman that Camex bought the stuff and killed it….offering the "Millmaster" customers a $1399 upgrade to Cam-Ex. << A local place called Toledo Mold and Die has ProE, but it doesn't sound like they have time to use it to its full potential. They do all kinds of stuff for the automotive industry.>> Pro-e has never been highly regarded by those in the know and in the thick as being particularlily good at automotive type surfaces and there "Pro-Machine" was quite a joke for a while.. but their always improving. I use Pro-e because it was the drafting/design package I always thought ought to exist. It makes a ton of sense to me; relates handsomely to my days in the back of dads garage whittling what-not out of hunks of plex, wood, kitestring and chewing-gum. It just seems like the obviouse way to create a didgital model. What you do with it once you've created it can sometimes be another story. But nowadays everybody uses Pro-E and I think it is the Acad replacement for mechanical types. Regards, Peter Kroko