Partners
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Texas Offline CAD &
DNC
Partners
(in
alphabetical order) DC CAD:
Autodesk Texas Engineering:
SolidWorks Vector Graphics: Autodesk Texas Offline
Machine Tool Partners(in alphabetical
order) AmTTech Bulls' Eye Machine Tools
& Equipment CAMPAT Machine Tool
Inc. Champion Machine Tools Chaparral
Machinery Ellison Technology Haas Factory
Outlet Hartwig Koch Machine Machine
Tool Specialties Oliver Van Horn Quality
Tools Regal Machine Rex Supply Timco
Machine Tools Technical Machine
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Training
Schedule
Training Classes are
held from 8:00-5:00 each day with a computer
workstation provided for each student. Class size
is limited so reservations are required.
Texas Offline reserves the right to
reschedule any class that does not
meet the
requirements.
Houston,
Texas
Intro Lathe
July
20
August 10
Sept 14
Intro
Mill
July
21-22
August 11-12
Sept 15-16
3D
Mill
July 23
August
13
Sept 17
Dallas,
Texas
Intro
Lathe
July
7
August
3
Sept 8
Intro
Mill
July
8-9
August
4-5
Sept 9-10
3D
Mill
July
10
August
6
Sept 11
Austin,
Texas
Intro
Lathe
July
27
Sept 28
Intro Mill
July
28-29
Sept 29-30
Louisiana
Intro
Lathe
July
13
Sept 21
Intro
Mill
July
14-15
Sept 22-23
3D Mill
July
16
Sept 24
Oklahoma
Intro
Lathe
August 17
Intro
Mill
August 18-19
3D
Mill
August 20
San
Antonio
Intro
Lathe
August 24
Intro
Mill
August 25-26
3D
Mill
August 27
For more
information, or to make reservations, please
contact Margie at 281-376-2003 or Margie@texasoffline.com
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Texas Offline will give you 10% toward your
annual maintenacne fees up to $750.00 for any lead
that becomes a
sale.
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Gibbs and Associates
Celebrates 25 Years
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 Thanks
Customers, Employees & Partners for Landmark
Anniversary
In celebration of Gibbs
& Associates 25 years in business, Bill Gibbs
has sent out a Thank You on their website www.GibbsCAM.com . Recounting
their 25 years as a leader in the CAM industry
Bill Gibbs, president and founder states, "We owe
our success and longevity to our customers, our
employees, our GibbsCAM Resellers and other
industry partners." "Without them, we would not be
celebrating this landmark year. We thank our
customers and partners with continued support and
a promise to keep GibbsCAM as powerful, as
efficient, and as easy to use as we can, always
with an effort to keep it in step with developing
CAD and machine tool capabilities."
Powerfully
Simple, Simply Powerful has been a guiding
philosophy for Gibbs development, and the
process-based approach to CNC programming has
given GibbsCAM a reputation as "developed by
machinists for machinists." The resulting breadth
of capabilities, with easy-to-use interface,
continue to gain more customers for the
company.
Clicking on the picture of
Bill Gibbs on the article will take you to the
prerecorded telecast at IMTS. You can hear Bill
discuss the 2009 release of GibbsCAM that was
released earlier this year.
Since 1984, Gibbs and Associates' goal has been to
provide customers the most effective CAM system
available. Throughout its history, GibbsCAM has
demonstrated its lead in the wide field of
PC-based CAM software.
To retain its
leadership in customer support throughout its
25-year history, Gibbs and Associates has
developed and maintained strong partnerships with
leading, worldwide CAD developers, control
manufacturers and machine tool builders.
Collaboration with industry partners resulted in
GibbsCAM's ability to directly import part and
assembly models in multiple CAD formats, and to
support machines with integrated toolpath
verification, machine-tool simulation and
thousands of post processors.
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Fine Tune Your
Shop
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Depending on which
Economist you listen to, it is said that our US
economy should be back toward the end of this
year. Business doesn't stand still and bills
still need to be paid so that news isn't very
encouraging for today. But there are things
you can do to tread water until that
time.
We have noticed a trend lately with
our Texas Offline customers that are using this
time to fine tune their shop. They are
reevaluating the products that they already own
and maximizing their investments.
Our new product eNET DNC has been a pleasant
surprise. Our customers are looking for
better ways fine tune their shop and to save time
and make their shop flow better
inexpensively. eNET DNC provides flexible,
secure, reliable and cost effective data
management, by allowing the user to connect CNC
machine controls using an existing computer
network. There are several packages to
choose from according to you needs and budget, but
all very affordable. See the next article
for listing or you can call our office to discuss
your needs.
Reevaluating your
employees is a must in this lean time. Our weekly
GibbsCAM Training classes are exploding. It
may be in part to our customers weeding out the
dead wood in their shop & hiring qualified
people. Some are even using this slow time
to wisely to sharpen up their Gibbs skills by
taking the next class that they never had time to
take before. We have scheduled a full week
in both Houston and Dallas every month and are
able to have tailored classes on your parts in
your shop if you are outside that area.
Another area our customers are improving in
their shop is finding new areas to prosper.
By simply adding a new module like 2D solids,
3D or 5th axis, you will be able to broaden
your spectrum of work you can bid on. You
are widening the net of your shop and providing
more available opportunity for profit. You
make yourself more valuable to your customers by
being able to meet more of their machining
needs.
Feel free to call our
office for a quote. Jason is available to
discuss any advice on what modules you will need
fine tune your shop to create more profit for your
future.
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eNET
Products
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Below is a partial
list of the eNET DNC products and prices.
Because there are so many variances with the
amount of machines & preferences this is not a
complete list, only examples. Please call our
office for an exact quote using your CNC Machines
& needs. Both wired & wireless can be
mixed in a shop.
eNETDNC
Lite- Allows you to configure up to
10 machines and you can use your original switch
boxes, 1st seat = $750. 2nd seat for -
$400.
eNET Pro
Editor - A high end CNC Editor
that is a stand alone & can be used by
itself. $750.00
eNET DNC Wired-
Supports all wired machine controls types
including proprietary Mazatrol formats.
System can be expanded to support an unlimited #
of CNC's. Able to drip/spoon feed multiple
CNC machines simultaneously. Licensed per
physical company 8 port DNC Serial Hubs with
RS232 ports for 8 machines. Supports
software or hardware handshakes, interfaces with
existing Ethernet network, built in surge
protection uses CAT5 cables and standard RJ45
terminals,
Software .- $2,550.
8 Port Hub -
$1,250
eNET DNC
Wireless- Supports all CNC machine controls
types including proprietary Mazatrol
formats. System can be expanded to support
an unlimited # of CNC's. Able to drip/spoon
feed multiple CNC machines simultaneously.
Licensed per physical company. Includes the
CNC RS232 Wireless Access point, all necessary
cables. Supports software or hardware
handshakes Upload & Downloads.
Software -
$2,250.00
Wireless Unit -
$700.00
Machine
Monitoring- Reports real time data directly
to your PC on Ethernet LAN. Partial list includes;
Is the machine running? Why has it
stopped? Includes one seat of eViewer
software for group reports.
1 Machine
Monitoring board required per machine. -
$8,625.
Installation-
Texas Offline guarantees eNET DNC only if Texas
Offline, a certified professional provides the
instillation. Price is quoted per
machine.
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Cimatron
Awarded Fastest Growing CAD/CAM
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Cimatron
Limited (Nasdaq: CIMT), a leading provider of
integrated CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and
die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete
parts, announced that it was identified as the
fastest growing CAD/CAM provider in 2008 according
to report by prominent market research firm
CIMdata.
According to CIMdata's NC
Software and Related Services Market Assessment,
Cimatron's growth in 2008 was 45.6%, making
Cimatron the sixth largest CAD/CAM provider
globally.
Cimatron's revenue
increased by over 12 Million USD compared with
2007 revenue. CIMdata credited the growth to the
merger with Gibbs and Associates, among other
factors. Gibbs and Associates, developers of
GibbsCAM software merged into Cimatron in January
2008.
Mr. Alan Christman, Chairman
of CIMdata, wrote: "CIMdata believes that the
merging of Gibbs with Cimatron is a positive move.
The companies are very complementary to one
another in product, markets pursued, and
distribution channels. It brings together the
CimatronE integrated CAD/CAM suite focused on
toolmaking with GibbsCAM-which is focused on
production machining to provide a more complete
product portfolio for the manufacturing industry.
Cimatron was a company with about twice Gibbs'
current sales volume and very little product or
distribution overlap. CIMdata believes that as a
combined entity, they are better positioned to
increase their presence in the CAD/CAM market with
increased resources for product development,
sales, and marketing. The combined product
offering strengthens Cimatron's market position,
with the ability to deliver products targeting all
segments of the CAM market, from mold and die
making, through 2.5-axis and 5-axis production, to
mill-turn and multi-tasking machining (MTM).
Moreover, the combined distribution networks of
CimatronE and GibbsCAM complement each other and
provide excellent coverage of all target markets
worldwide, including a strong presence in North
America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. "
"We are pleased to be recognized by
CIMdata for the rapid growth in 2008 and for the
overall stronger market position of Cimatron",
said Danny Haran, President and CEO of Cimatron
Group. "We took advantage of every opportunity the
Gibbs merger afforded us. We now cater to a much
broader customer base and our stronger global
presence has allowed us to provide better services
to our customers worldwide, with CimatronE and
GibbsCAM alike."
As well as pointing
out Cimatron's growth of the last year, CIMdata
analysts confirmed that Cimatron was one of 5
vendors ranked among the top 10 in every
geographical region.
CIMdata also
praised CimatronE's electrode solution, one of the
strongest available on the market, and identified
Cimatron as one of the companies most dedicated to
customer services and technical support.
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10 Top Reasons
to Stay on Maintenance
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· 10- Gibbs
assures you that you will always be able to bring
in the latest CAD files. Every new CAD release
requires the latest Gibbs release.
· 9- You get all
major upgrades mailed to you annually. This
includes not just upgrades to the software, but
fixes that are important to the health of your
investment.
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8- 1-800 Tech Support~ Gibbs considers you
a preferred customer if you are on maintenance
& will take your tech call quickly. Texas
Offline has promised to give you free Tech support
for the life of your software. But we can not
always be two places at once. You are assured you
always have Gibbs support.
· 7- Gibbs
Customer Newsletter is sent out only to those on
Maintenance. It gives you important updates on
products, technical tips and customer success
stories. Texas Offline sends out our Newsletter to
ALL our customers whether or not you're on
maintenance, but of course we just can't fit
everything in our
quarterly
newsletter.
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6- You get multiple seat discounts. When
you purchase seats 2-4 you get 20% discount. Seats
5-9 you get a 35% discount. And yes we have
several customers who are well beyond the 10 seats
& only pay 50% of the cost. What a
savings!!!
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5- Avoid penalties. Gibbs requires you to
pay one full year back PLUS one full year forward
to get back on maintenance.
· 4- Gibbs only
charges 12% of the software price for the Annual
Maintenance. Do you realize that some CAMs charge
has much as 25%?!!!
· 3- It gives you
a chance to talk to Cindy & Margie at least
once a year.
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2- Maintenance customers can download the
very latest release TODAY by logging on to the
Gibbs website www.gibbscam.com with your secret
code. If you don't have a code, call
1-800-654-9399 & tech support will be glad to
give you one.
And the #1
REASON- Texas Offline is one of the
top GibbsCAM Reseller in the
WORLD.
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Texanosity
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Texas Offline
now has authority to sell in Texas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas , Missouri &
Mississippi. For all of our new
customers outside of Texas we want to make your
correspondence with us as easy as possible.
Below is a partial list of TEXANOSITY. Have
it on hand next time you have to place a technical
call to us.
Only a Texan knows the
difference between a hissy fit and a conniption
fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH"
them.
Only a Texan can show or point out to
you the general direction of "yonder."
Only
a Texan knows exactly how long "directly" is --as
in: "Going to town, be back directly."
Even
Texan babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a
request for the white, granular sweet substance
that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of
the table.
Only Texans grow up knowing the
difference between "right near" and "a right far
piece."
They also know that "just down the
road" can be 1 mile or 20.
A Texan knows
that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an
adverb.
Texans never refer to one person as
"ya'll."
When you hear someone say, "Well,
I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the
presence of a genuine Texan.
Only true
Texans say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk."! Sweet
tea indicates need for sugar and lots of it -- we
do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk"
means you don't want buttermilk.
Hearing a
smooth Southern Lady say "Bless your heart" is not
a compliment. It's a Southern way to say
you're really stupid.
And a true Texan
knows you don't scream obscenities at little old
ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just
say, "Bless her heart" and go your own
way.
Every person in every pickup waves.
It's called being friendly. Try to understand the
concept.
Texas eat cat fish
& crawfish. You really want sushi &
caviar? It's available at the corner bait
shop.
The "Opener" refers to
the first day of deer season. It's a religious
holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of
November.
Texans open doors for
women. That is applied to all women, regardless of
age or beauty.
College and High
School Football is as important here as the Lakers
and the Knicks, and a dang site more fun to
watch.
Colleges? Try Texas
Tech, Texas A&M or University of Texas . They
come outta there with an education plus a love for
God and country, and they still wave at passing
pickups when they come for the
holidays.
Texans have more folks in
the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, than any
other state, so " Don't Mess with Texas,"
Always remember what our great
governor Sam Houston once said:
" Texas can make it without the United
States , but the United States can't make it
without Texas !"
And to those
of you who are still having a hard time
understanding all this Texan stuff, bless your
hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on
Texan as a second
language!
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