i have sprut and visualmill with 4th axis and visualturn. i can tell you sprut is a huge pain in the rear compared with visualmill. in visualmill you can alter borders or other features for your machine operation very quick and easy because the cad package is in the software. sprut has a very poor ability of editing your geometry. i would gladly sell you my dongle and cd for $500 but you would want to hit yourself in the head with a hammer after about 10hrs or so with it. I spend many hours with sprut i thought it was okay till i used a friend of mines visualmill, i was so much better to work with. sprut has its good points to im sure but i never found very few of them. yes i know visualmill costs more but i can assure you you will get much more joy from the machine you purchased if you get software that is user friendly. lets see 1k for standard 2k with 4th axis. small fraction of what your machine costs. they have 1st rate tech support the tech support guy named uday knows the software inside and out i dare you to throw him a problem he cant answer in seconds. sprut has very poor tech support. thats my opinion. if sprut is all you know i can see why someone might like it. just like driving a camaro it seems nice until you drive the corvette.  |