Copyright (C) 1986-2011 by Daniel H. Hudgins, All Rights Reserved.

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This Web site is dedicated to the thousands of "users" of my programs, those who have helped test my programs over the last 25 or so years, and especially those who shared their experiences with me.

You must read this notice: This is a licensed Web site (HTML document and associated files). You must read and agree to be legally bound in contract by the Terms of Use and conditions given in the End User License Agreement ("EULA"), Legal Notices, Instructions, Warnings, Disclaimers, and all other text in "SECTION: 0" of "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files) before reading or using any of the information, software programs, and or files, contained in, linked to, and or associated with, "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files). Any use or "Beta Testing" of "This Web Site" constitutes your acknowledgment of your full agreement with the current End User License Agreement ("EULA") and your decision to have this current license supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings. Information and files in "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files) have been placed here so that long time users of "The Author's" programs DANCAD3D.COM (tm) , DANCAD87.EXE (tm), DANCINEL.EXE (tm), DANCINES.EXE (tm) , DANCAM.EXE (tm) , or DANPLOT.EXE (tm) could help proofread the text of the documentation files or screens displayed, and also help test data files, example files, and or any software programs that might be made available from time to time, to aid "The Author" in finding mistakes, bugs, and other errors, omissions, defects, mistakes, and faults. Everything in "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files) is "Beta Test", "Beta Code", Experimental, Preliminary, requires proofreading, or is being evaluated for possible revision, and is NOT warranted to be free of defect. To help "The Author" report any bugs, foul-ups, defects, or mistakes that you find, see "SECTION: 8" for instructions. "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files) and all other files and programs by Daniel H. Hudgins are made available "AS IS" without warranty of any kind express, expressed, or implied. All offers and specifications are subject to change or discontinuation without notice of any kind. Please look over "SECTION: 8" of "This Web Site" before contacting "The Author."

SECTION: 1 has some "general" information about my CAD and CAM programs, information about this Web site (HTML document), and "news" relating to the aforementioned. See also the program files in your distribution of my programs and the other parts of this HTML documentation (Web site) for information more specifically about how my programs operate and their commands.

Thank you for visiting my Web site. Starting around 1986 I began to write "User Supported" programs. The original on disk documentation file named DANCAD3D.DOC for my CAD program was added to and expanded over the years. When I wrote my CAM programs I added a separate documentation file named "CAMPLOT.DOC" that was also later added to and expanded.

As best as I could make out, users at that time wanted me to offer more documentation than could be fit on the floppy disk set that the "Shareware" disk distributors were willing to distribute, i.e. something like a 14 floppy disk set might not sell well for them. Users probably also wanted some illustrations along with the text. At that time making printed manuals was the only practical way of meeting such requirements for the documentation.

The main drawback of having printed manuals is that they quickly become out-of-date, and do not reflect current changes to the programs. It is also hard to correct or clarify the text, since that requires replacement pages to be manually inserted into the manual by the user. The high cost of shipping heavy printed manuals makes the shipping cost almost more than what the manual itself is worth.

Another issue with paper documentation is the cutting of trees and the pollution of water and air by, carbon emissions, pulp processing, and the eventual disposal of the printed matter. When the computer revolution began one of its supposed by-products was to be the elimination of the use of paper, however that can only happen if people switch to electronic documentation. Electronic documentation usually requires power generation, so does electronic documentation cause more pollution than printed documentation? Electronic documentation is less work for me to make available and probably less of a cost to the reader.

By converting, combining, and adding to some of the older documentation that I have developed over many years, I hope through this Web site to make information available at lower cost, make the documentation somewhat easier to update and maintain, and perhaps also allow for better graphic images and streaming video. The HTML language used on the World Wide Web seems to be the best choice right now for the distribution of the documentation since HTML browsers are available for many types of computers, from DOS on up, and the browsers are even sometimes free. If a user wants to print out a portion of some HTML for his own reading he can probably use the print feature in his browser, rather than having to purchase all of the text as printed matter when he will probably only use a small portion of that text frequently.

By placing some percentage of the new HTML documentation I am developing into a Web site users of my programs might be able to help me proofread the text, files, and HTML code for mistakes. Since the text and code are so voluminous now, I could perhaps use some help from my users in getting all the kinks worked out.

One potentially useful new project is the FAQ. I hope to post some of the more interesting support questions and answers so that users can see if someone else got an answer to their question. New Questions and Answers for the FAQ may take a while to get posted, but I hope someday to find the time to update the questions and answer section periodically.

I plan to keep the use of graphics in many of the HTML pages to the minimum for now because one of the worst things I find about the internet is waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for unimportant images to load, especially while using a 14.4k bps modem. On the pages that have some graphics, I will probably have the photos and other graphics come up in a default lower resolution version at first, and then you can pick larger copies of the same graphic from links below the small version that is displayed on the screen.

If this Web site gets distributed as an HTML document on a CD-ROM someday there might be more room for graphics and media files on the CD-ROM than there would be in my Web site as it is installed on the Internet's World Wide Web. I might need to omit some of the larger graphic or media files in the version of the HTML documentation that is displayed on the Web. Likewise if I include the text portion of this HTML documentation with the programs in a "*.ZIP" file, I might need to omit all or most of the graphic files to keep the size of the ZIP file within practical limits. If you find a dead link to a graphic file on the version of this Web site you are now reading, try to check the current "On-Line" version if it is available to see if the link works there.

While a CD-ROM can go out of date just like a printed manual, an "On-Line" Web site can change day to day, making it easier to keep up to date. A CD-ROM can be less expensive to replace than a printed manual, so it might be possible to replace the CD-ROM every few months or so. Even if the CD-ROM is slightly out-of-date it can be better to view from than the Web because large graphic, media and program files can load much faster from the disk than through a modem, making the HTML documentation more of a pleasure to use. I will have to figure out what the right balance on these issues is, and see what users think as well.

One of the more useful things I have found on the internet so far is when people put links in their personal Web page to other sites that have some unique interest. I think that I might try to add some links eventually to other pages on the net that might be of interest to users of this site, and or to another authors pages that I personally find interesting, look in SECTION: 9 to see what I have done with regard to links so far. If you make a link to this Web site please ONLY make the link to its http://www.DANCAD3D.com/ (sm) URL address, because the names, and locations, of the its Web pages, and files, may change in time, and you will end up with a dead end link in your page. If you find any dead links in my site you can report them as you would any other bug, see SECTION: 8.

Be sure to check to see what ZIP files might currently be available for download from this Web site in SECTION: 9. Since the programs, or other files, may get revised from time to time you should check to see if any of the files you are "Beta Testing" have been revised since you downloaded the version or revision you now have. One of the best things about the Internet is that revised files might be able to be posted and downloaded by users within hours of their release, whereas the older floppy disk, or CD-ROM, distribution approach could have companies distributing file versions that might be years out of date, resulting in inquires about issues that where long ago resolved.

I hope you enjoy exploring this Web site, you may need to poke around and scroll up and down a bit following the internal links, since unlike a book where you can flip through the bound pages of equal size, information here is on Web pages of varying height linked together through branching sections and sub-sections.