As far as realiable operation, stability and security goes there is a lot to be said for that arrangement. YOU KNOW GUYS, THERE ARE RULES FOR EVERYTHING, JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT YOUR COMPUTERS ON THE NET IT ISN'T THE SOFTWARE COMPANYS PROBLEM.IT'S YOURS.YOU HAVE RULES FOR YOUR BUISNESS AND THEY HAVE RULES FOR THEIRS, so if you you don't like thiers get a different software.Seriously Len, what is up with the shouting? As far as I can tell noone has promoted illegal software the discussion is more about what is indeed illegal and more to the point what is reasonable arrangements between the needs of users and software companies.Īs far as the net connection goes we don't have our main computers online, and we basically have dedicated computers for programming and CAD. HEY WE DO NOT PROMOTE ILLEGAL SOFTWARE ON HERE!!! Anything otherwise is just more of the same BS. If it takes say, three hours of programing to emulate a dongle, that three hours should be worth the same money whether the dongle unlocks $500 software or $15000 software. Anyone have a recommendation for where to source a dongle emulator? Searching the web, it seems that each company offering this service needs to know what your software is worth before they will quote a price, so it appears they are involved in exactly the same shake-down. Up until this point I have assumed that if the dongle should die, MC would stand behind their product and replace it. I will point out that we're not a job shop and progaming is only one of the things I do I tend to do several intensive weeks of programing at one point of the product design / tooling build / production start-up cycle, then won't touch MC again for a couple months.
Mastercam dongle emulator upgrade#
I like v9, it does all I need it to do, and after following the upgrade route from v6, through v7 and v8 with their attendant learning curves, I decided that continuous change was a grand waste of time. I own v9 free and clear there was never any requirement to pay maintenance, and I never did.
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Mastercam dongle emulator update#
It would seem that if a dongle fails, and the software vendor refuses to replace it, a call to your lawyer and/or the attorney general is in order.Interestingly, I just received an e-mail from my MasterCAM vendor telling me that my MCv9 will no longer be "updateable" and I need to update to X5 to "protect my investment."