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iGull wrote:Hi
As no-one has replied to your question, I'll give you my take - I may use bad words occasionally )
I have a lightobject controller - the electronics work well and have USB and ethernet interfaces - the remote pod is neat and tidy.
I drive mine from my iMac using virtualbox running windozeXP - the software is PC sadly.
To be honest, there is really nothing much to choose between the hardware of LO/Thunderlaser/Shenhui - contrary to popular opinion - promises of great changes to the supplied firmware/software have failed to transpire.
However, while the software may SEEM similar between them - it most definitely IS NOT!
I've used the LO software (Lasercad) for about a year now - there have been a few MINOR improvements, but all the hype and promise of great things (updated software etc) has not transpired.
The software for the LO is pretty awful - the file importers crash regularly if you don't follow a specific set of processes - the tools just don't work - panning jumps all over the place, zooming doesn't work - the tools are generally all in the wrong palettes or menus. The menus suffer from having 'chinglish' (to be fair, the others do too, but you can edit them all to be meaningful in your language).
I don't know about Thunderlaser (I believe its the same as the shenhui 'LaserWorks' software ?) - I do know about the shenhui setup - the hardware looks and performs the same as the rest - no ethernet though - not as a big deal as I hoped for really. Where the shenhui software scores is that mostly, it works - the importers don't crash that much and the tools pretty much work as expected. There are a few points where it is nicer - it shows the toolpath and directions and importantly, it's easily changed - layer order is easily changed, it doesn't hang because it's on layer 2! Because they're all from the same stable (of donkeys, not horses ) the tools are all in the same (wrong IMHO) places.
Doing it again (which I will be in the next few months) - I'd go for the shenhui setup - I was quoted cheaper and even though I know that there (probably) won't be any software updates, I know that the software for the most part, works. You can check the forum on sawmill creek for all the horror stories ))
And I didn't swear once
Cheers
Neil
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