Calypso Sucks

I use both PC-DMIS and Calypso and find that Calypso is more cumbersome to program.

Calipso is the devil!

I went to a calypso user group once when we were considering switching to the other brand . It was like being at a apple store and telling the artists there that you like windows better and macs are for ( fill in the blank here) I had a tour of the facility as well. What ever you say about the software, the machines and name brand has only been know for quality products so I will not say a negative remark about that. We started another division and the man in charge thought it would be a good idea to get a machine that no one knew how to program and when they asked me for help all I could do was explain how I would do it with DMIS. It was a nightmare to say the least. !! Needless to say when my division bought new machines we got new globals. Never mind had we went the other way around we would have had to re-write 300-400 + programs. Bullet dodged !

I use both and both are great programming platforms....

Was a pcdmis user for years, had to switch jobs working with Calypso, and I jave notthing negative to say about it, not a thing!!

Calipso is the devil!

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YESS!! THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING WHEN I MADE THAT COMMENT hahahaaha

We almost bout a zeiss machine for our other facility. Going to training was part of the quote but we didn't get the machine after all. You don't have to like it but learn it and you'll become better at it. Learn as much as you can from other softwares too. It will broaden your horizons.

Maybe you'll be making peanut butter after its all said and done?

I even liked Calypso more.....

I've been at it almost a year, and I gotta say objectively? Some things Calypso rocks at, but others? Nearly had me in a straightjacket. Similar to the beloved Demon, as a newb, it was hard (if not impossible) to tell if it was me..... or the software that was blowing chunks.
Calypso is very...uh... headstrong. It's like one minute Calypso and and I are flying the airplane, but then I pi$$ it off and it throws me out of the cockpit and locks the door. It really does try to take over aspects of programming which I want control of myself. And I think the CAD/acis25 engine is robust as a house of cards.
The help files seem written with English as an afterthought. (read: pay us to train you.... but that's pretty much par for any software's course - edge to Hexagon) But the cookbooks ARE nice.
But as to which is best? It's comparing apples to pomegranates.
louisd, I can only imagine the thrill ride you're on with that CT/Metrotom stuff. Just buckle in and keep all yer appendages inside the Zeiss module until it comes to a complete stop:::::::::..........