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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday February 25, @11:34PM (5 children)

    by mhajicek (51) on Wednesday February 25, @11:34PM (#1434967)

    Yeah, cloud is a nonstarter. Most of my work is covered by NDAs.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 26, @02:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 26, @02:03AM (#1434974)

    I talked to a machinist I know at length about this. Beyond the NDAs that are common in the industry, even worse would be hacks of the service. If the SaaS provider were breached, then their designs that are verified to work could leak. And his competitors or even his own clients (who could take it to a competitor) with access to that information could ruin him. Worse, he could do everything right and still get screwed. Very easy to say "no" to cloud in those circumstances.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by dx3bydt3 on Thursday February 26, @03:33AM (1 child)

    by dx3bydt3 (82) on Thursday February 26, @03:33AM (#1434979)

    Regarding NDAs and special compliance requirements like ITAR I find it surprising that there hasn't been a lockdown version of windows made available. Sure, Pro allows you to adjust more things, but all versions as far as I know send some undisclosed telemetry to MS. How does that work with an NDA?

    • Flagged Comment by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 26, @06:11AM (#1434987)

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 11, @08:25PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday March 11, @08:25PM (#1436420)

    NDAs.

    Careful, the list of things only mastercam can do shrinks every year and wasn't that long of a list to begin with.

    Lemme guess you're either doing something really weird with like 7-axis simultaneous motion to make crazy shapes like engine turbos, which mastercam is legendary at, or you're doing something with so many holes you can't avoid using the "solid hole" thing in mastercam. IIRC it has integrated automatic deburr but doesn't everyone now?

    For non-machinists (or wanna be machinists in my case) who are programmers, solid hole is like instead of drawing complicated threaded holes there's an object at the base level to peck drill and counterbore and tap holes as a base object rather than something you draw and infer. Which is probably wrong enough to offend both the machinists and the OO programmers simultaneously but its not bad for a one-liner. "Its really good at drilling complicated holes".

    There ain't much else that mastercam, and only mastercam, can do. Even using their free demo license, mastercam was just too much of a hassle when I tried it. I get it that being able to do anything means you got a lot of flaming hoops to jump thru but it was a bit excessive.

    My machinist skills top out around drilling heatsink holes and chassis holes in general. It's just easier to conversationally CNC than do it by hand, at least if you want it accurate to the thousandth of an inch so parts just drop in place. In PCB work I'm well aware of flatcam but my results are awful copper tears off, "smears" almost, it never turns out well. The answer always seems to be "bro just buy a $15K air spindle bro" which would work but $15K would fund outsourced pcb construction for decades by me. Yeah yeah I know that Usagi Electric guy runs flatcam on his youtube channel and it works great for him but it never works for me. I've made replacement gears on a mill that worked the first time, I guess that's mildly impressive for a hobbyist. Gears are cool.

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday March 12, @06:06AM

      by mhajicek (51) on Thursday March 12, @06:06AM (#1436466)

      I don't think I ever claimed that only Mastercam can do this job. There are other CAM softwares that would be equally capable, like Top Solid, NX, and a few others. They all share the common traits of being proprietary and Windows only.

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