I guess my only point was.. how useful is the software really without a carvewright machine? This is a hobbiest system right? If I have 5 pc's in my house (which by the way would be low... I have 12 but only use 5-7 of them on a daily basis), is there really a big deal of me having the software on all 12? I only have one carvewright so its not like I can be creating 12 proejcts then turn around and run them all at the same time?
I have a hobbist vinyl cutter (no.. not cricket), and when they first started out they had thier software tied to machines... eventually they also realized that with out the cutter, the software really isnt that valuable... and after enough complaints from the unser comunity, they changed it where the "machine" was the dongle. Obvioulsy I dont want to have to have the carvewright hooked up to a computer to be able to use it... but what super cool things are people doing with the software by itself without eventaully wanting to send it to a carvewright?
The computer embroidery machine I have also works in this fashion. Again.. the design software isnt really useful if you dont have the "hardware" that is actually going to use the design.
What am I missing? What can you really do with the designer program if you dont own a carvewright? The only thing I can think of is make some neat projects... that owuld make me say "hey... this is really cool stuff... i'm gonna have to go get me one of those carvewright machine so I can carve these project I just made."
Doug Fletcher