Re: Alibre's Greg Milliken Is As Dishonest As They Come

On Mon, 5 May 2008 16:40:17 -0700 (PDT), jon_banquer
<jon_banquer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>A specific example of how ****ed Alibre is, is that Alibre doesn't
>allow a user to create what SolidWorks calls Reference Geometry
>Coordinate Systems. 

  Why should it?
  Get the instructions & read them. Oops  .. you've never used 
Alibre ....

>Mastercam has the same thing and calls them Works
>Coordinate Systems 

  Actually known by real users as "Work coordinate system",
which you had confused with fixture offsets .... LOL ...

>or WCS's. Without this ability a CAM users is
>forced to translate the geometry from it's original datum.... a big
>no-
>no and not allowed by larger / smarter companies. 

  None of which would allow you in the door.

  Or you could use fixture offsets, perhaps postprocessor functions,
etc.  LOL ....  

  (He's just discovered a "WCS" option in MasterCam it seems ... anybody
want to guess from whose post on what BBS system?)
-- 
Cliff