Re: Mastercam x3

On Feb 23, 1:18 pm, Bill <johnsondi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 23, 8:44 am, Joe788 <joemama...@xxxxxxx> wrote:



On Feb 23, 4:08 am, Cliff <Clhuprichguessw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:28:34 -0800 (PST), Joe788 <larryro...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
San Diego's 5th Axis CNC

http://www.reportingtransparency.ca.gov/Audits/Internal_Audits/Employ....
[
During the term of the Agreement, 5th Axis switched from using
Master Cam software to Open Mind Hyper-Mill software. The switch in software had
a huge
learning curve and the ETP funding allowed you to provide the critically needed
training hours
for the new system (off production).
]

  They got $20,280 from the State of California for "training"
and it looks like they had been using a rather old version of MasterCAM
anyway.

  Manage to drill any holes yet??

  BTW, News was well over a year old. Stale, in fact.
  "Training began on 6/01/07."
--
Cliff

Very interesting. Nice find Cliff!

Now that the cat is out of the bag on that... I was aware they had
been looking at NX as well. Hard to beat a deal like subsidized
training for a new system. Same reason Haas jumped on MC (though an
even better deal) - free software - free training. Funny when some
Asian company does that to the US we call it "dumping" and unfair. We
do it to ourselves and we call it shrewd business sense! <g>

--
Bill

Hard not to laugh at the fact that Jon obviously had no idea these
guys got $20K worth of free training.

Not too thrilled about my tax dollars paying for my competitors to
enhance their capabilities, but perhaps I'm just being hypocritical.
I'm sure I wouldn't turn away 20 grand from the state.
.