Are there any ....

[Turbine]

CADKEY users here? Enough to have a page devoted?
Speak up. Ya can't tell me I'm the only one.

[Paul_S]

I had used CADKey with a PC-APT if I remember year correctly in '92. So I would be of little help to you today. But I had used it.

[castguy2003]

My CadKey goes back to Ver. 98 but I liked it better than Autocad. Wish I could lay my hands on a newer version.

Castguy2003

[HomeCNC]

I have been using Cadkey since 1985. I now am the CAD/CAM application engineer at work. I have all the versions of Cadkey under my belt.

[Turbine]

I was worried for a minute there. It took awhile to get some responses. I didn't need help, I was just probing to see if there is enough interest for a Cadkey page here. I'm still using '98 at home. I keep getting offers to check out the new demo. But I don't need to fall in love with a new version thatI can't afford and will self-destruct in a month anyways. I don't know for sure but I don't think there is anything out there that can render as photoreal. I'm a hardcore wireframe person that was spoiled rotten on solids.
castguy2003, I can get the demo and contact info (I'm in CT) if you're interested.
The center of attention is Workshop and KeyCut now.
I guess it was buggin' me that I havn't even heard of a lot of the programs on this site that are buzzing,and not one mention of CK.
It's a geographic thing I think.

[castguy2003]

My biggest gripe with Ver 98 is the solids portion does not have a history tree. Makes it damn hard to go back and make changes. My Mastercam 8 has solids also but it does have a history tree.
Cadkey used to be more affordable, now they want the big bucks also. And I never found anything on Kazaa.

[HomeCNC]

Solids was not very stable and had many different problems with the Cadkey 9X versions. I am using CK 19 as well as the company I work for. This is the last version before the complete change of Cadkey to Workshop. I support 50 seats of Cadkey here and we could not go to the new Cadkey because of the file format change. We have to many vendors world wide that are using older versions of Cadkey and the files must stay compatable.

I have sitting next to me a case 50 Cadkey Workshop V20 and some Version 21. I don't even want to look at it since we can't use it.

[castguy2003]

Take fifty bucks for one? :-)

[CNCadmin]

So do I add a Cadkey section ?

[CNCadmin]

Originally posted by HomeCNC I have sitting next to me a case 50 Cadkey Workshop V20 and some Version 21. I don't even want to look at it since we can't use it.

Put it for sale in the for sale section.

[Turbine]

And the bidding is off to a great start sixty bucks?

HomeCNC,
That drastic of a file format change? Is it just... not a .prt
OR.... is it not even ACIS anymore? I havn't run into anything to complain about with '98....... EXCEPT that the printing is all screwed up like it was with v7.5 wireframe. It responds almost as nicely as Gibbs. In fact I model a lot of the more complex geometries in CK even though they'll end up in Gibbs anyways for programming. Gibbs is still "slicker" and more "gracefull" but I can get a lot more technical with CK. (more toys)
Got any cool .cdl's or .cde's to share macro's??

CNCAdmin,
Shure

[moldcore]

I've been using Cadkey since about '89 with version 3.5. I'm slowly moving over to my Workshop 21 and beginning to like it more with each use. Ck19 scares me to death with its corrupt solid thing and I don't get that with CK21. But CK21 has some glitches that they say will be fixed in the next release. Draft-Pak and FastSurf are included in Workshop but some are complaining of missing features from the old Draft-Pak that are not in this new release. I have the EX version that has Catia4, Pro-e, and Unigraphics translators included and they seem to work pretty well.

I too would like to see a Cadkey group and a Surfcam Group. Considering some of the other software groups that are here, many of them I've never heard of, the addition of these two can't hurt. Many of these have their own forums on their own websites that are well attended and very helpful, especially Cadkey. I'm not aware of any Surfcam sites that get more than one message a month. My only concern is that this list of software is getting very long, maybe they could be separated into two groups; CAD and CAM.

As to selling the software, forget it, you have to have a license from Cadkey Corp to activate the software and you have to be a registered user to get the license.