I've got a brief time slot at the opening ceremony of the Segmented Woodturners Symposium which is the last weekend in October at Boston where I'll give a quick demo and the have a booth for the remainder of the Symposium. I'm not sure if I'll be taking orders there or not. There's still a lot of work to be done, but I'm hopeful that all the hard parts are done. As far as I can tell, all of the graphics and calculations are working correctly. I don't know what the price is going to be yet, but there will be introductory pricing and anyone that has bought the existing software since July will get a free copy.
As an experiment today, I wanted to see how long it would take to create a cremation urn sized for a 230 pound person. I went to Google images, copied an image io the profile canvas, selected 10" tall and used six clicks to create the wall profile and my completed bowl was then displayed. With a single click, I changed all of the default rows to 3/4", another keystroke to switch to a palette of exotic woods, another keystroke to change the number of segments to 16 per row which automatically adjusted all five elements of the feature group, and one keystroke to move the feature ring group one ring lower in the design which then showed me exactly what the finished height and width of the feature segment had to be. Since the cubic inches was 183, I clicked the bowl height button three times, proportionally expanding the vessel until the cubic inches read 232. I then printed the Summary, sorted by board width and segment edge length. I even printed a sheet of adhesive labels to go on baggies for the individual rows.
Design time, start-to-finish: 52 seconds.
With the plan now saved in the database, I can reopen the plan and apply it to any of the saved profiles. The new vessel will be shown instantly with the feature group having been moved to the widest point of the new profile.
As you can probably tell, I've been thinking about this software for a long, long time.
Lloyd