Now I do my own post processor work but I'm losing money doing it that way. NexGenCAM is local here so we used them at the old shop for post development. Setting up tool geometry isn't incredibly intuitive but again, I don't use it but a few times a year and then those programs get stored in the control and run over and over. I just end up hand editing those sections, usually. For families of parts it is a huge time saver.Д«ecause I don't use it daily, there are still a lot of frustrations with 'why TF isn't this toolpath generating? I want it to cut to exactly here, but it wants me to allow it to cut more and I don't want that' type stuff. Make sure they understand the template functionality. If you have a company that can help with the post processor, or can do it in-house, then the capability is certainly there to program parts easily. They also have models of a lot of machines in their library to set up machine simulation. The biggest advancement I've seen is the number of stock posts for multi-axis and mill-turn type machines. In addition, they want to get a Haas CL-1, and I understand it has a decent conversational control. (My own solution has been HSMWorks for milling and FingerCam for turning because I use so many custom tools, and turning programs are all pretty small and simple compared to milling programs). The other option I'm considering is Mastercrap.I'd like to stay with a unified platform if I can, and Mastercam is harder to get decent at in my opinion (I've used both) but the turning, although still nothing to write home about in the ancient version I've run (Mastercam 8 from 1999) is still a lot better than HSMWorks ever was for turning. Last time I checked, as of 2020 the complaints were still pretty heated.Дid Autodesk ever get up off their fat duffs and actually do something to address the user complaints or is it still the same POS it was back when it was still HSMWorks? I'd like to recommend Fusion 360 for their milling because it's pretty simple and adequately powerful, but I know nothing about whether Autodicks ever bothered to improve Fusion 360 for turning. Problem is most of the users will be novices. I have to make a CAM recommendation for a company that is buying 5 axis milling and 2 axis turning capability. Now Autodesk has bought HSMWorks and made it their very own in Fusion 360, as everyone knows. (HSMWorks for Milling was great, but Turning sucked donkey balls). I tried HSMWorks Turning back in 2015 and found it to be the biggest piece of shit known to man.

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