I just want to draw something, quit bothering me with these crazy reference figures! It works very well once you make the conceptual leap, but it's very frustrating at first. Cubify works by sticking printable figures to reference points, lines, and curves that are non-printing. What made it difficult is I want to plug in x,y,z coordinates and link together points and plane geometry figures. The learning curve was steep for me, but I was able to produce useful drawings after several weeks of effort. It's a lot better than that, but it's kind of an unfair comparison. I can't really speak to the relative advantages and disadvantages of it compared to the competition, because the only experience I have is with some very basic 2-d freeware, A9CAD. I think it is similar to or the same as GeoMagic, but the exact nature of their business arrangement is not clear to me. Unbelievable!ĭolphin technical support is a joke, the product has great potential that it doesn't live up to and you'd be wasting your money purchasing it. Not only did the new version work less well than the old one, they still included the old WRONG Hurco post files. We didn't need CAM for several years and when an opportunity to upgrade at a good price came along at the end of 2013 we did so, expecting a lot of improvement in the intervening versions. The post-processor files were initially wrong for our Hurco - and when we told them about it and supplied a correct file to them about 8 years ago I thought it would be fixed and incorporated into the product. Trying to get the CAM side working was an exercise in frustration. Once you get used to the rather non-intuitive user interface you can do quite a few nifty things with the CAD side of the product but overall it is clunky and strange. Their demo looked really slick so we bought it about 9 years ago. It iniitially looked like a great product with comprehensive G-Code support for a variety of machine tools - with post processors that would talk to our Hurco KMB CNC control seamlessly. When we wanted something to move to CAD/CAM and 2.5 or 3D we tried Dolphin CAD/CAM. I'm not sure how well supported it is anymore as what we have is very stable and we haven't needed an upgrade for the kinds of things we do.

It imports and exports DXF files and other formats. It works well for our 2D designs and is easy to learn. We started in CAD with Generic CAD long ago, which morphed into Visual CAD.

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