{"id":1523,"date":"2011-03-16T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.tedatum.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T19:12:17","slug":"letting-the-cat-out-of-the-cad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"Letting the Cat Out of the CAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1525 size-full\" title=\"bobcad_logohead\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bobcad_logohead.jpg\" alt=\"BobCAD Logo\" width=\"110\" height=\"69\"\/>I am taking an opportunity in my project schedule to try another CAD\/CAM package. I had looked at it long ago and it has been around for over 25 years. When I first saw it (back then) I believed it was one of those,\u201dyet another CAD\/CAM packages.\u201d I am sure at some point I registered and ran at least the demo, as it seems I have been receiving occasional marketing from them forever. Back in that time, I was looking for a cheap all in one CNC solution. I was still a bit naive of all the requirements. I did find and purchase <a href=\"http:\/\/deskcnc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeskCNC<\/a> with its serial port interface. That worked OK but I am now using much stronger and expensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhino3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhino<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectric.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vectric 3D<\/a> software and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.machsupport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MACH3 from ArtSoft<\/a>. You get what you pay for.<\/p>\n<p>The product to which I am now referring to is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobcad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BobCAD-CAM<\/a>. I knew it was created by a guy named Bob (Bob Twaalfhoven) so I assumed he just called it BobCAD after himself. I was thinking simplistically it was Bob\u2019s CAD. Today it is a more professional play on the image of a Bobcat, just change the T to a D. Whatever the thought on the name, it has survived the test of time.<\/p>\n<p>Soon I will see if it survives the test of Dan.<\/p>\n<p>DeskCNC is still around too but the web page has changed little to none. BobCAD-CAM is on version 24 and a first web site look, while allowing for marketing hyperbole, seems impressive.<\/p>\n<p>It will take me a few weeks or a month or so to give it a full workout and use it to construct a CNC project. I\u2019ll probably leak a few comments here in the blog, but I am considering doing a full report, probably in the web site.<\/p>\n<p>While devouring the Bob CAD-CAM website I discovered another new bit of information. They have a division they call Turnkey Mills (Turkey Mills?) and they offer a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnkeymills.com\/bobmill375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sieg size X3 CNC mill (BobMill 375)<\/a> in a full package. Hmmm!! Very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am taking an opportunity in my project schedule to try another CAD\/CAM package. I had looked at it long ago and it has been around for over 25 years. When I first saw it (back then) I believed it was one of those,\u201dyet another CAD\/CAM packages.\u201d I am sure at some point I registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,52],"tags":[91,138,92,89],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cadcamcnc","category-metalwork","tag-3d","tag-cnc","tag-drawing","tag-milling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}