{"id":585,"date":"2018-12-05T19:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:07:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:07:59","slug":"product-review-comparison-g-wizard-conversational-vs-kipware-conversational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/product-review-comparison-g-wizard-conversational-vs-kipware-conversational\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Review \/ Comparison &#8212; G-Wizard Conversational vs Kipware\u00ae Conversational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you do a google search for &#8220;conversational cnc software&#8221; &#8230; one of the displayed option is for a product from CNCCookbook called G-Wizard Conversational CNC. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>OK then &#8230; if you&#8217;re taking up market space then you are fair game &#8230; so let&#8217;s see what it is.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Conversational CNC is part of the G-Wizard Editor package. The editor is a G code creation \/ editing \/ plotting application and the conversational &#8220;wizards&#8221; allow you to create snippets of G code to be inserted into the editor as you build a G code program. It truly is what I would call a &#8220;wizard&#8221; &#8230; quite limited in scope with only a very few simple operations available for G code generation. CNCCookbook touts that &#8220;conversational CNC is free during beta testing&#8221; &#8230; you can see why. The product hasn&#8217;t changed much in over two years and seems to be something that has lost the interest of the developer. However &#8230; as I stated above if you&#8217;re taking up market space &#8230; you are fair game for an honest and thorough review.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick video of our review of the TURNING wizards &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Kipware Conversational vs G-Wizard Conversational\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tsW664hjwFw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A couple of other annoying \/ unprofessional &#8220;features&#8221; :<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(1) It outputs TONS of lines of code &#8230; most simply messages &#8230; but if your control has limited memory capacity &#8230; it&#8217;s an issue.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-592\" src=\"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gw_code.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"855\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(2) There doesn&#8217;t\u00a0 appear to be any way to go back and edit code that was already created through a wizard &#8230; you have to start all over again in a new instance of the wizard. KipwareT\u00ae allows for complete recall into the conversational menu or direct edit of the cycle G code created.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Roughing and finishing are always done &#8230; doesn&#8217;t seem to be any way to select ROUGH only or FINISH only &#8230; both are independently selectable in KipwareT.<\/p>\n<p>Overall &#8230; the look and feel of G-Wizard conversational is that of a &#8220;wizard&#8221;. It will generate snippets of G code but is very limiting and without many options if you are trying to use it as a replacement for complex CAD\/CAM for simpler workpieces &#8230; and there is no DXF import if the shape you are programming has some non-standard features.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentechinc.com\/kipware-programming-software\/\">DUMP the WIZARDS &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentechinc.com\/kipware-programming-software\/\">GO PRO with Kipware\u00ae Conversational<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Kenney Skonieczny &#8211; President<br \/>\nKentech Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you do a google search for &#8220;conversational cnc software&#8221; &#8230; one of the displayed option is for a product from CNCCookbook called G-Wizard Conversational CNC. OK then &#8230; if you&#8217;re taking up market space then you are fair game &#8230; so let&#8217;s see what it is. 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