This was exactly the response I was trying to elicit! If I am missing something here, SCM users please speak up and help out! Thanks!ġ1/16/15 #10: Sketchup to Xilog Maestro. I know I am being hard on SCM here, and I am a self admitted perfectionist, but casual remarks by a Weeke user about how quick and easy their interface is, simply do not sink into people's brains unless you have felt on your flesh what it's like not to have those features and functions Weeke/Homag users take for granted.Īgain, I do not sell Weeke/Homag. I surmise that if the best SCM operator in the world would race the average Joe on a Weeke, the Weeke would do the same 10 kitchens in half the time (perhaps a little exaggerated). someone accidentally touches the safety bumper), you have no option (that I am aware of) to restart the program from the point you stopped at, you must redrill and reroute everything from the beginning. If there is an issue mid-cycle and you have to stop the program (e.g. iso files are useless again, because the tool length and other tool info is embedded in the. But if you need to change a tool on the fly, then all your. You could perhaps pre-plan the SB skims every 15-20 sheets, and then prepare the iso files in separate folders ready to be downloaded. There is no way round this that I know of. So it can take 5-15 minutes of programming time until you are running again after a spoilboard skim. This takes time because our programs coming from CV are in xxl format, and you use the win-xiso converter to get. If you need to resurface the spoilboard on the fly, all your programs have to redone at the office and then downloaded again to the console to account for the new BZ offset value. The pratix comes with a handheld console at the machine that downloads programs from your office PC.

And, no, I am not a salesman for Homag.ġ1/8/15 #4: Sketchup to Xilog Maestro. Homag uses Wood Cad Cam and other softwares that can do just about anything. SCM changes the syntax from machine to machine, so what was good yesterday is no good today, and who knows about tomorrow.īottom line, the user interface is in my opinion more important than the machine itself, and you should not skimp on software. Almost every external software available has a post for MPR, which incidentally, is uniform for all Homag machines. I have a Pratix S.Īfter extensive research, I believe that there is nothing out there as good as Homag, which runs on Woodwop.

My main problem with SCM has been external software integration. My advice would be to find the very best software available, and then find the machine that works with it.

It doesn't play well with itself, let alone with other software. My experience with Xilog Maestro has not been good.

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