Custom Chopper design and fabrication is a billion dollar a year industry with a wide variety of custom fabricators all walking the line, pushing the envelope and trying to build custom motorcycles that are meant to be ridden while blowing you away with new eye-popping designs and sounds that make old ladies quake and young ladies take notice. However, the process of fabricating a custom bike is a precision-demanding activity with extreme deadlines and expensive materials at stake. There is no room for error and there is no exception in cutting edge technology when one wrong turn could cost you BIG!

John Dodson, the Head Gangster of Gangster Choppers in Virginia was recently asked what came to mind when commenting on his NEW Version 19 software. His response was, “Freedom.” Time is money and John has to have the freedom to quickly make design changes or modifications to parts on the fly without time consuming learning curves or errors. Currently Gangster Choppers weighs in with a combined 20 years of experience in machining technology, welding applications and metal finishing as well as all related procedures in manufacturing choppers.

Currently, through using BobCAD-CAM John has experienced nothing but success through the software’s powerful, yet user-friendly interface. The NEW Version 19 offers the freedom to design in solids as well as import solid and surface type files for generating accurate toolpath and g-code programs for CNC Machining. For John, first he designs the required part in the software using the CAD interface. Once the part is complete and has met his requirements, he can quickly generate the toolpath and g-code program for machining singular or multiple parts at once on their new HAAS CNC machine. The longest part of the overall process is designing the part to meet John’s requirements. This is exactly why Gangster Choppers has chosen BobCAD-CAM software exclusively for the design and manufacturing aspects of their award winning choppers.

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Last January I purchased a shop built CNC Router from a company in Kentucky. Although it was not a standard "name brand", it has all the greatest features that you would expect on a much more expensive machine and was a great addition to my small manufacturing business. Just one little hitch though. I had no previous experience with either CAD drawings programs or CAM manufacturing. I tried to use the software that came with the machine and struggled for several months trying to just do simple things and was extremely frustrated with the results. I even tried to use some of the freeware programs that I found on the internet to find software that would work for me and found them for the most part either very slow in speed and or lacking in simplicity for my skill level. In other words, you really do get what you pay for. I kept seeing the advertisements for Bobcad and felt that I just couldn't afford your programs even though you are priced much lower tha many others. Boy was I wrong!!

I finally, at the urging of my girlfriend, did make the phone call to your sales person and after a lengthy conversation, bought your Bobcad version 18. Within a few days of receiving your software package, I was finally making a few simple parts!!! With the exception of a phone call to your wonderful support team to customize a few settings for my custom job built CNC machine, I was off and running. I've found your software to be both simple and very effective. It's my opinion that the software that you choose is as important as the machine that you are using.

I later did attend one of your training seminars and accelerated my training curve tremendously!! Your trainer is incredible! He made such a difference in my understanding of how to program as well as execute my work that I now take in a few jobs from other companies and the results have been both very gratifying as well as profitable. I've found that your strongest point however, is your excellent support team. I've now subscribed to your "Support on demand" program and it's simply amazing to me even yet how friendly, knowledgeable and fast your support personnel are. They not only identify my problems as they have occurred, but quickly have found a solution to all my little problems. Thus far, they are usually only operator errors. In short, your programs are a bargain and my money was very well spent.

Thank you, from one very satisfied customer.
Dennis Perry
Owner
Duraflap Mudflaps

 

Since 1997 BATTLERS CONNECTION has been a builder, battler, and supplier of equipment and supplies for use in R/C Warship Combat. Each of their models are available as a kit or as a stand alone hull. The BATTLERS CONNECTION will always strive to be the best in delivering the highest quality products.

After 7 years of business Charley and company have attended numerous R/C competitions and have won many awards including “Axis Most Feared” and “Best of Class 7” Awards in their industry. After having programmed their parts by hand for so long, making the jump to CNC was important to add productivity. This is when they discovered BobCAD-CAM software to meet their manufacturing requirements.

Here is what he had to say about BobCAD-CAM:

“I have to say that this is my first time ever using CNC and CAD-CAM software. With the help of BobCAD technical support I was able to program my first part in less than a day.” BobCAD software has given me the flexibility to create my toolpath and g-code easily so that I can continue making the parts that I need to make.”

“Because our products are very custom, I needed something that was both easy to use and that would cut down the toolpath and programming complexities that I had experienced when programming by hand. I had no idea that CAD-CAM could be this easy! I absolutely have to hand it to the BobCAD technical support team for their dedicated approach to guiding me through the software.” “ As a novice programmer, I really appreciate this!”

For more information on Battlers Connection visit their website at www.battlersconnection.com

Charley Stephens