- There are only a handful of people on the planet who know the software fully, as it applies to Dental. Probably under Twenty people?
- A new employee of CIM System has just been added in the US. He is a former employee of the Whip Mix CAD/CAM division, Michael Webb. (Great guy!)
He will try to help with tech support for North America now. He is a computer guy, and not from Dental background.
Michael still lives in Louisville KY right around the corner from you. His employer is now CIMSystem.
He is on a plane now leaving Richmond and headed back to KY.
- Other than quitting your job to go work for CIM System......Just Money and time to learn. Took me $$ and years of playing to learn so far. I really don't know of another way to do it. I had to get to a place in my life where I could disappear from work for a few months, buy some extra mills just to play with, then I needed some money for tools and materials, extra PCs, etc..., then I sit down for months and play....(while loosing crazy money and my sanity every second!)
- I paid for Luigi and Gianmarco to fly here now Four or
times? I forget. Usually these visits are for up to a full week at a time!
We played with Lava, KaVo, Haas and many other mills to work out the post-processors and fine-tuning. We work on developing Bar strategy and general theory of milling various materials. Just bouncing ideas and trying things. I am almost caught up to them on learning the software, but they keep adding crap about as fast as I can learn/use it. Now with Michael Webb here in the states, maybe the extra training you are looking for will be cheaper and easier than what I went through? Michael does not own a mill, so you will have to donate yours to play with, or buy another to beat on while playing around and experimenting.
- There is 50% of the program that is hidden. You'd never find it unless someone told you how to. LOL All sorts of Alt+CTRL+crazy numbers and stuff.
Also, the full manual does not exist. At least, not that I know of.
Why is this??? Why is there no awesome manual you may ask??
Well, it could crate all sorts of problems and unnecessary questions and wasted time for all the end users.
DelCAM is similar, but even more expensive and closed-down.
You need to mill, mill, mill to see many failures and experiment with angles, options, feeds and increments and stuff. It takes forever, it seems, to build up some sort of knowledge and experience with the machines, materials, and software.
- The past many months I have been on an extended deep-search for more tools in different geometries for screw canals, screw seating surfaces, and Implant interfaces. I am now loving a new weird Seven-fluted, Flat-end mill for some certain abutment interface finishing that I stumbled on recently from a US manufacture. Variable helix, variable angles, made for aero-space milling of exotic/Ti alloys. Look unlike most other tools you have seen. It cuts a corner so damn clean and sharp. I feel great about the final surface finish and tolerance now. Just started using it for production today, as well as a few really loooong tools for a big screw-retained monsters with long screw-holes. We had to determine the flex of each tool in a few scenerios, then adjust, then re-check, then adjust, then finally into production pieces. Anyways, it is fun to learn and progress. More fun than just making money. Makes me wonder what else am I missing out there?? The whole world of tools is ridiculous! Goes on, and on, and on endlessly it seems when trying to go shopping.
