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General Category => Fabrication => Topic started by: weirtech on January 15, 2010, 09:40:16 AM

Title: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: weirtech on January 15, 2010, 09:40:16 AM: putting together my bender today. wondering if anyone has a copy of bend tech pro they want to sell me, or where i could download it for cheap. let me know!
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: CSaddict on January 15, 2010, 06:08:17 PM: Just buy it. Its worth it. They are coded and need to be registered to use. They also need disc check every so many times. Chris is a great guy to deal with. His customer service is second to none. He even called me on a Sunday to help me with an issue I was having. That is service.
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: Passenger on January 15, 2010, 06:25:07 PM: Agreed, I have a copy and have only used it a couple times but they were really helpful to answer my questions.
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: mandrel-bends on January 17, 2010, 02:43:33 PM: Your copy is registered to your computer's MAC address. Make sure the computer you install it on is one that will be around for awhile. It's cheap software, even their SE LRA for commercial apps is only $600. It's not directly comparable to some of the more high-end tube bending packages, but we are talking about $15k software packages that it does ok against.
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: Joseph Davis on January 17, 2010, 07:32:16 PM: MAC address like your NIC, or machine ID?
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: weirtech on January 17, 2010, 08:57:30 PM: hmmmm. well, the laptop it is probably going on is a bit dated (5 years old now)... will it work on a mac?
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: HiProfile on January 18, 2010, 02:32:46 PM: Quote from: Joseph Davis on January 17, 2010, 07:32:16 PM
MAC address like your NIC, or machine ID?

Machine ID is retarded in most cases (depending on what you base it on), I'd assume it's MAC. Nic cards last far longer than an OS install. The thing is you can change your MAC address on most OS's...
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: mandrel-bends on January 19, 2010, 01:40:41 AM: I know what your thinking JD, and yes you can MAC Spoof to fool it. You can also run a terminal server and dish up multiple sessions off one computer as well. Not speaking from experience.
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: Joseph Davis on January 19, 2010, 04:34:23 AM: Quote from: mandrel-bends on January 19, 2010, 01:40:41 AM
I know what your thinking JD, and yes you can MAC Spoof to fool it. You can also run a terminal server and dish up multiple sessions off one computer as well. Not speaking from experience.
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That wasn't what I was thinking. I was thinking, MAC address - huh?? The only thing I've ever used that went off of the MAC address of my NIC was Altera's Quartus II.
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: crxvtec91 on January 24, 2010, 06:13:02 PM: Quote from: weirtech on January 17, 2010, 08:57:30 PM
hmmmm. well, the laptop it is probably going on is a bit dated (5 years old now)... will it work on a mac?

No it will mostly not install. You can use a program called crossover to get it to run.
Title: Re: who has a copy of Bend Tech Pro?
Post by: bigwig on January 25, 2010, 06:58:32 PM: Why not just install XP onto the Mac? It should work then now that Macs and PCs are about 98% the same now-a-days.