Hello. I just installed Segment Pro and Woodturner Pro.
While watching the first video on Segment Pro I was impressed with it. I'm a novice, there's no way I could at present create some of those intricate designs.
Anyway, I'd buy it right now except for one thing, it's all decimals. Who works in wood in decimals? I don't and can't imagine having to convert everything. Why couldn't whoever wrote this program have it shown in fractions?
I then looked at WTP and it was so confusing I had to just shut it down. I really don't understand what WTP does, and from the interface it looks very old, no offense. Also, in WTP when I went to summary the columns were all compressed and truncated. No matter what I did I couldn't get it to print properly and I have a 54 inch screen. I'm going to watch the rest of the videos after I type this.
Please don't take offense at my post, I'd love to use Segment Pro.
I actually have gotten away from fractions. My digital caliper can do fractions, decimal and metric.
As far as WTP. It was Lloyd's first segment planning software. The printing issue has been addressed in other threads you can search. One thing I do is export the summary file and bring it into excel (spreadsheet) program. Solves the printing issue.
WTP gives you full control of the design. You can modify each ring. SP does not. Each has it plusses and minuses.
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Lloyd Johnson in another post said: "
he S.E.L. (Segment Edge Length) is shown in decimal inches unless you have changed the setting to use milimeters.
Fractions are no longer used for a variety of reasons, first on the list is that desktop computers are being replaced with laptops and tablets and increasingly, keyboards are being deleted because touch screens and screen-based keyboards are becoming more prevalent. The fields used for data are all numeric fields because you can increment/decrement them by clicking on arrows. Fractions are text characters, though, so they cannot be used in a modern user interface.
Once you've used digital inches, you'll wonder why you didn't switch years ago. It is more accurate and far simpler. The key is to get a micrometer that measures in decimal inches and also get a ruler or tape measure that has fraction on one edge and digital inches on the other.
Finally, the rest of the world has been using digital numbers instead of fractions, well, forever. If we're ever going to get to a universal measurement system (should have happened years ago, moving to decimal inches from fractions if a major first step.