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Calypso Sucks

louisd
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I am stuck on a project involving CT Metrotome and Calypso. The software is powerful, really powerful... BUT (__HUGE___ o ___BUT___) it takes FOREVER to program effectively. there's a custom setting, unique strategy, filtering, blah blah blah for every little thing... Plus, we pay Zeiss like $400 an hour to make us crap routines that just reject product with poor GD&T.
Here I am, stuck fixing their crap for peanuts.
"</Rant>"

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