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Flexi just basically sucks.
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houseofgrafix
none
No problem here. Sounds like a user error
rdm01
New Member
Your lucky, contour cutting a complex shape. How about simple changes in
colors, or outlines on semi-complex shapes, only to re-open and perform the
exact same operation without problem.
I could see the user error comment if it were one person complaining about
flexi, but the masses say the have overlooked and ignored the majority of
large repeating claims of bad software. I will head back towards other
software soon.
colors, or outlines on semi-complex shapes, only to re-open and perform the
exact same operation without problem.
I could see the user error comment if it were one person complaining about
flexi, but the masses say the have overlooked and ignored the majority of
large repeating claims of bad software. I will head back towards other
software soon.
Pat Whatley
New Member
Still fighting SA?
ChristianSlager
New Member
99% of our work is done in flexi, including wrap compilation, average crashes per month...2-3. I don't feel thats bad, after having corel and omega do it daily....
Checkers
New Member
Every program has its flaws, but never had a problem making money with it. I've never had "bad" software either.
From my experience, it can be a loose nut behind the controls, but most software problems result from cheap computers and components, an under-powered or over-taxed system, or conflicts between programs.
Your design computers should be just that. While it may be convenient or cool to have every gizmo, gadget, bell and whistle on the system, you should only keep what you need on it to make money.
Buy a good system with good components from a reputable dealer that will support you after the sale. Leave the video games and other crap for the kids computers.
Checkers
From my experience, it can be a loose nut behind the controls, but most software problems result from cheap computers and components, an under-powered or over-taxed system, or conflicts between programs.
Your design computers should be just that. While it may be convenient or cool to have every gizmo, gadget, bell and whistle on the system, you should only keep what you need on it to make money.
Buy a good system with good components from a reputable dealer that will support you after the sale. Leave the video games and other crap for the kids computers.
Checkers
thewood
New Member
I have to agree with you. Flexi has been the keystone in our very efficient, productive and profitable workflow for a decade. We use it to design, cut and print with no issues. It sucks that folks have issues with it, but we don't.
animenick65
New Member
If you don't like flexi, come try Omega. Will make Flexi seem godlike.
paul luszcz
New Member
I've never used Flexi, but I've had my share of "bad software". Early versions of Corel (4 and 5) would have constant conflicts with video drivers; objects would suddenly disappear even though the invisible entity could be selected. We had to disable our graphics cards to get Corel to work properly. Switching to Illustrator solved that problem for all eternity.
Do any of you use Omega, or Graphix Advantage before that? If you do anything it doesn't like, it brings down your entire OS. I'm not picking on Gerber, it could be Microsoft's fault. Either way, it's bad software.
When the driver for a video card or a drawing program is written out of spec or an application doesn't work properly with the OS it's designed for, no matter which is at fault it's a case of "bad software".
Do any of you use Omega, or Graphix Advantage before that? If you do anything it doesn't like, it brings down your entire OS. I'm not picking on Gerber, it could be Microsoft's fault. Either way, it's bad software.
When the driver for a video card or a drawing program is written out of spec or an application doesn't work properly with the OS it's designed for, no matter which is at fault it's a case of "bad software".
gabagoo
New Member
I have Flexi, Corel , Signlab 5 and 8 , & Omega. All have their good sides and all have their negative. As someone here already said, when using Flexi with complex files it might be wise to make sure that nothing is running in the background as it is a bit of a memory hog. Omega? I can't design in it as I find it to constraining, like being in a small closet with no elbow room...lol Signlab I like the best probably because I have been using it for 16 years, yet it still kacks out at critical juntures of the day.
Nothing is perfect it seems, but running your software on a powerful computer can help.
Nothing is perfect it seems, but running your software on a powerful computer can help.
mrugen
New Member
Education is may times the answer! Yes, software, ALL software has issues eg. VISTA! Some of it is indeed the software, but hardware is needed to run software and EVERYONE has a cousin that makes their computer, or maybe they get the smokin hot computer only to find its TOO GOOD...most issues are a combination of in this order in my opinion:
1. USER ISSUES
2. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
3. LACK OF PATIENCE
4. OTHER SOFTWARE or OS ISSUES
5. HARDWARE - COMPUTER etc
6. THE SOFTWARE ITSELF
Maybe 5 & 6 could be reversed, but the important thing is 1-4! The reason for my opinion? Having taught thousands of users, many many times I find that the "advanced, experienced" users typically is not and there are lots of impatient type-A's out there as well as genuine users who just cant get it going.
But, after a seminar learning whatever software you prefer, they always find they like it better and produce more and funny enough have fewer issues.
1. USER ISSUES
2. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
3. LACK OF PATIENCE
4. OTHER SOFTWARE or OS ISSUES
5. HARDWARE - COMPUTER etc
6. THE SOFTWARE ITSELF
Maybe 5 & 6 could be reversed, but the important thing is 1-4! The reason for my opinion? Having taught thousands of users, many many times I find that the "advanced, experienced" users typically is not and there are lots of impatient type-A's out there as well as genuine users who just cant get it going.
But, after a seminar learning whatever software you prefer, they always find they like it better and produce more and funny enough have fewer issues.
Techman
New Member
Iv'e worked on computers since 1980s'. I do not keep up on all the latest hardware. I do not really care. I was involved with developing software. I was a win 98 se guru. And I was a XP guru when most of us were still waiting for it to be officially released. In my experience.. Hardware doesn't make a machine, It's the software.
I posted that SP 2 would be a problem for cad/cam users long before it was a known problem. Not because of a crystal ball. But because I and many others knew that lots of software authors was cheated on the code.
Many machines I work on get my special tweaking and never have a problem as long as the user leaves them alone. I have my own special point of sale and database DELL machine that has never failed since it was new in 2003 with never a reinstall of any kind. Never a virus and never a reboot.
So, why do I get the calls to fix this "piece of junk"? The reasons vary however. The most common is just what this poster is complaining about. Its some kind of constant software crash..
Just for the record. I run another 2.4 P4 that runs my printer and cutter and internet and online and every thing else I can pour to it. It has never had a reinstall, never had a hard drive crash, and never had a malware problem. Its been running constantly since 2004 with hardly ever a day when it is turned off.
IT got my special tweaking years ago and runs as good as it was when new. So what is the point. No, its not bragging. Its to point out that a properly tuned machine will run good software without a hitch. The only thing i do si clean the junk files out of the temp folders a few times a year.
The next point. In nearly every case of a reasonable software package crashing is caused by some kind of conflict. No, not hardware conflicts. If a machine can sit there and run fine with just a desk top then all is good. If a machine will run with a screen saver then it is good. Screen savers use a lot of power. In fact, many old IT techs will run a complex screen saver to test a a machine.
In the end I found almost always there is a conflict within between some piece of junk utility. in about 95% of the machines with a crash problem That I personally tweaked.. there is some screen saver, some little goody that causes the problem. Some cute little goody the owner just can't live with out. Some little registry cleaner that removes just one little line and it causes an intermittent problem.
In almost all crasher machine there was some unknown service hogging resources or some task bar utility that runs some script. The causes are countless. The goodies remain in the thousands. But they are the problems. Main stream software like corel, or flexi or whatever that runs just fine. Add in one little unknown utility and runs in the background and now you got a crasher. Why? because many of them violate and fudge on certain memory calls or api calls or some other established rule. Yes, programmers take shortcuts.
IE:
There was a doctors office I used to attend. I was guaranteed to get a call around the 15th of each month for months. His reception office machine was always trouble.
I fixed it one month and removed the CD drive. I never got called again. The receptionist constantly complained about the CD being gone. However, I knew she was doing something with that CD drive that installed back a cute little utility that was the frigging pain. That is. it never was a pain until she started up the accounting billing around the middle of the month.
So does every one see the point.
Discard all those cute little goodies, those cursers, those strange screen savers, those clocks, those radio's, and all those other freeby little junk piles that secretly cause you problems. I never never observed a properly tweaked machine become a crasher unless there was someone was adding in something that really didn't need to be there..
And finally. Most of you do not know about the capacitor fiasco. Yes, fiasco or should i say scandle or even FRAUD. I worked on way too many P4 machines and even some newer machines that were unstable because of bad capacitors on the motherboard.
All you have to do is google 1500 uf 6.3 v capacitor and you will see some shocking truth. Just a few years ago way too many electronics companies ripped off users by replacing bad motherboards that merely had a bad .10 cent capacitor on them. They would remove your board. Replace it with another one. And repair your board with that .10 cent capacitor and put into someone else machine. Charge 100 bux and make a nice profit.
This caused a load of crash problems for way too many computer users thinking it was software when in fact is was all based on a scam. Yes, even a number of late model machines are suffering this crash problem. And yes a machine will run fine with one software but crash when running another when it has this cap problem.,,
I posted that SP 2 would be a problem for cad/cam users long before it was a known problem. Not because of a crystal ball. But because I and many others knew that lots of software authors was cheated on the code.
Many machines I work on get my special tweaking and never have a problem as long as the user leaves them alone. I have my own special point of sale and database DELL machine that has never failed since it was new in 2003 with never a reinstall of any kind. Never a virus and never a reboot.
So, why do I get the calls to fix this "piece of junk"? The reasons vary however. The most common is just what this poster is complaining about. Its some kind of constant software crash..
Just for the record. I run another 2.4 P4 that runs my printer and cutter and internet and online and every thing else I can pour to it. It has never had a reinstall, never had a hard drive crash, and never had a malware problem. Its been running constantly since 2004 with hardly ever a day when it is turned off.
IT got my special tweaking years ago and runs as good as it was when new. So what is the point. No, its not bragging. Its to point out that a properly tuned machine will run good software without a hitch. The only thing i do si clean the junk files out of the temp folders a few times a year.
The next point. In nearly every case of a reasonable software package crashing is caused by some kind of conflict. No, not hardware conflicts. If a machine can sit there and run fine with just a desk top then all is good. If a machine will run with a screen saver then it is good. Screen savers use a lot of power. In fact, many old IT techs will run a complex screen saver to test a a machine.
In the end I found almost always there is a conflict within between some piece of junk utility. in about 95% of the machines with a crash problem That I personally tweaked.. there is some screen saver, some little goody that causes the problem. Some cute little goody the owner just can't live with out. Some little registry cleaner that removes just one little line and it causes an intermittent problem.
In almost all crasher machine there was some unknown service hogging resources or some task bar utility that runs some script. The causes are countless. The goodies remain in the thousands. But they are the problems. Main stream software like corel, or flexi or whatever that runs just fine. Add in one little unknown utility and runs in the background and now you got a crasher. Why? because many of them violate and fudge on certain memory calls or api calls or some other established rule. Yes, programmers take shortcuts.
IE:
There was a doctors office I used to attend. I was guaranteed to get a call around the 15th of each month for months. His reception office machine was always trouble.
I fixed it one month and removed the CD drive. I never got called again. The receptionist constantly complained about the CD being gone. However, I knew she was doing something with that CD drive that installed back a cute little utility that was the frigging pain. That is. it never was a pain until she started up the accounting billing around the middle of the month.
So does every one see the point.
Discard all those cute little goodies, those cursers, those strange screen savers, those clocks, those radio's, and all those other freeby little junk piles that secretly cause you problems. I never never observed a properly tweaked machine become a crasher unless there was someone was adding in something that really didn't need to be there..
And finally. Most of you do not know about the capacitor fiasco. Yes, fiasco or should i say scandle or even FRAUD. I worked on way too many P4 machines and even some newer machines that were unstable because of bad capacitors on the motherboard.
All you have to do is google 1500 uf 6.3 v capacitor and you will see some shocking truth. Just a few years ago way too many electronics companies ripped off users by replacing bad motherboards that merely had a bad .10 cent capacitor on them. They would remove your board. Replace it with another one. And repair your board with that .10 cent capacitor and put into someone else machine. Charge 100 bux and make a nice profit.
This caused a load of crash problems for way too many computer users thinking it was software when in fact is was all based on a scam. Yes, even a number of late model machines are suffering this crash problem. And yes a machine will run fine with one software but crash when running another when it has this cap problem.,,
Replicator
New Member
I am a Flexi supporter . . . For vinyl cutting only !
houseofgrafix
none
I use flexi for printing and cutting
sarge
New Member
what techman is saying is very true .. i have been messin with computers back is the trs-80 days .. i do all my cutting on one machine as well as printing .. in my shop i call them work machines .. that is what they are .. no elf games .. no music .. no poker .. no porn .. and no personal email .. you want personal email, music and porn .. go home .. my work computers are mine and they are for work .. i do this forum on my laptop .. and it is my play machine .. by keeping my work machines clean i normally have no problems . i buy good stuff and put good stuff in them .. i go by the saying .. shit in, shit out .. go but your stuff of ebay .. but just as many people who get a good deal 2 get the shaft .. as for flexi .. i have the software someware and have yet to try it .. i like using corel, autocad, and adobe with co-cut .. not using anything else .. know what you got .. not what they got .. oh i havebeen using corel since corel 4 came out