Although I acted largely on the recommendation of my dealer when I started almost five years ago, in retrospect, it was the absolute right decision for our needs. While I can't reveal anything here about the future, let me say it will be exciting and will make some pretty cool stuff possible. On occasion, through our friendship with the folks at EnRoute, I have been privileged to catch a glimpse of things currently in development for EnRoute. In doing so I understand how the program works so well. He often explains the thought process he and his brother Kent are going through as they write new features for EnRoute. Jeff Hartman (one of the creators of EnRoute) has been our guest teacher at many of our workshops. We've also been privileged to work closely with EnRoute in teaching others in how to use this program and in exploring new ways to use it to it's full potential. We've done some very cool projects in that time. In October it will be five years since I started on this amazing journey. I broke out the manual and did my best to struggle through the learning curve. He also scheduled some one on one time with the instructor for us.

About this time our dealer had schedules some training course with EnRoute. But I wanted far more than that! I wanted to do dimensional pieces for the most part. The folks at our local MultiCam dealer did their best to show me what they knew.

We would wait until I had a handle on things. I purposely had no jobs scheduled for production on it. We were different from most shops in our approach to learning to operate our router and the software to operate it. Trusting him, we made our choice and bought EnRoute. Our dealer also felt that EnRoute would continue to be on the cutting edge in the future. He felt the learning curve was the shallowest and yet the program was still very powerful. Because our experience with complex software was so limited our MultiCam dealer recommended EnRoute. The software we selected had to do the same. We wanted a machine that would impose few limitations on what we could do back then or in the future. I wanted a sturdy, reliable machine that would allow me to concentrate on the art I was producing and think as little as possible about the software and hardware we were using to help us create it. We ended up purchasing a top end MultiCam CNC router. So everything we were looking at was brand new. I came from the bitmap, Photoshop side of things. I didn't even know how to work with vectors. I had no experience with complex computer programs or CNC routers. The information was perplexing and overwhelming to say the least. Back when we were searching for a CNC router I looked at everything.

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