Something as simple as editing the CPL – Hover over the CPL – Right click and press edit? – In an ideal world maybe but for now you need to know exactly where to look to edit the CPL. This is something that Edgecam have not even touched on yet. The easiest way of explaining this is that your web browser will have several ways of printing the page you are looking at File-Print / Right click-print / Page setup- Print etc etc.
Most software these days is deigned with multi-navigational design where the user has several ways of getting to where he wants to. That may sound strange but the honest truth is that trying to learn Edgecam has seriously doubted my own technical abilities which is completely unfair as its quite obvious that the software is very user “unfriendly” and a huge amount of “Once you know how – its easy” This is the biggest hurdle you ill have with this software. I felt compelled to write the above as I had to remind myself that I am not stupid. 95% of all of these designs are still in production today and continually being improved. Solidworks complacent with coming onto nearly a thousand various designs under my belt.
Vast experience of machining techniques on Conventional & CNC – Manual Programming & CAM, problem solving, machine tool optimisation, Tooling & Fixturing design, comprehensive metallurgical understanding, designer of individual parts and complex assembles. Unfortunately Edgecam’s support operate on a “only if enough people complain about an issue will they do something about it” – Ask me how I know… ?Ī little about myself (all will become clear further on…)Īn engineer of nearly 30 years with 25 years of CNC experience. If I was the MD or CEO of this company I would be mortified knowing that these simple type of problems exist. Does my first few post give a true representation of a company that offers World Class Support? I think not… ? “Worldclass Customer Support” it states on their front page of their website. I get very frustrated when I see a very fancy highly polished front end to this company but yet there are some truly shocking bad practices/features that need sorting out for existing customers. There you have it and this sums up my experience so far – “It’s easy once you know how” Quite sadly its this kind of trait that runs through the whole of EdgeCam software. Good grief -rather than the dialogue box opening up at the part of the page I was on, it had opened up at the top of the page completely out of view – that why the screen was turning grey!!!!. So we are back to the down load page ? – lets click on the link again and look carefully to see if I am doing anything wrong.Īrghh – the dreaded grey background again….Hmm – what on earth is going on? – Lets just scroll again – oh hang on what’s that I have just seen at the top of the page?… Hmm Lets hit the back button and start again…. Hmm – that’s odd – the whole background has just gone grey? – No dialogue box – no pop up message – Nada – Cant see any activity or waiting messages in bottom left of browser? I roll the mouse wheel up and down and the page moves up thinking that that the browser might have frozen.
Looks good so far – lets click on the link to download the file… Let go to download the latest version of Edgecam from the portal. Still struggling but I should be used to this by now….