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| jon banquer |
 Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:36 am |
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Looks like GSSL now has full control of Teksoft.
It seems to me that development of CAMWorks has been very,
very slow for the last say 2 years.
GSSL and SolidWorks Corp. have always been close partners.
(FeatureWorks, etc.)
Anyone using the latest verson of CAMWorks and have any comments on
how happy you are or are not with it ?
Looks like SolidCAM is seeing a lot of development but it still looks like
a lot of things are missing. Anyone using SolidCAM ?
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| Cliff |
| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:37 pm |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:44:13 GMT, "Robert Luck"
<rl012t5439@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Quote: Copes with form tools well
How complex, compared to the general 7 parameter APT cutter?
Is it limited to 3 axes max work?
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:37 am |
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Camworks is a good product, I use it for solidworks parts & pro-e
manufacturing for pro-e parts.
The last 2 versions of camworks have had some good improvements & they
have beta testing for 5 axis programing out.
It's just like any software product, goods & bads. What might be the
best this year might not be the next but may angain be the year after.
So there probaly is no perfectly right or wrong
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| Cliff |
| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:36 am |
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:29:15 -0700, "jon banquer"
<jonSeamlessUnifiedHybridbanquer@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote: Bob,
Did you choose to go the SolidCAM route because in your situation you felt
it was the best compromise ? IOW, I seriously doubt SolidCAM can match
PowerMill for 3 axis surfacing toolpath routines but I'm sure SolidCAM is
much better at 2 1/2 axis mill work.
No clues?
Quote: Was your seat of HyperMill a stand alone or did it run inside a CAD program
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No clues?
Quote: What does SolidCAM charge for a post processor ?
No clues?
Quote: I take it you can't
construct your own postprocessor just edit an existing one ?
No clues?
Quote: If this is the
case I sure don't like this aspect of SolidCAM. : (
No clues?
Quote: Thanks much for the insight into SolidCAM so far. Appreciate it.
No clues.
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| jon banquer |
| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:36 pm |
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<garyreif@email.com> wrote in message
news:1106277991.492722.263720@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Quote: Camworks is a good product, I use it for solidworks parts & pro-e
manufacturing for pro-e parts.
The last 2 versions of camworks have had some good improvements & they
have beta testing for 5 axis programing out.
It's just like any software product, goods & bads. What might be the
best this year might not be the next but may angain be the year after.
So there probaly is no perfectly right or wrong
Gary
Gary,
Quote: It's just like any software product, goods & bads. What might be the
best this year might not be the next but may angain be the year after.
So there probaly is no perfectly right or wrong
Very well said. Pehaps one could conclude that being a product loyalist
is a very dangerous thing when it comes to CAD/CAM ? :>)
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| Robert Luck |
| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:36 am |
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Jon
Quote: Did you choose to go the SolidCAM route because in your situation you
felt
it was the best compromise ? IOW, I seriously doubt SolidCAM can match
PowerMill for 3 axis surfacing toolpath routines but I'm sure SolidCAM is
much better at 2 1/2 axis mill work.
I chose SolidCAM because it was the best solution for what I have to do
(which is make brake calipers for racing cars from solid). If I worked in
mould & die, then I would have chosen PowerMill, if I was a subbie, then it
would have been MasterCAM. Chosing software is a case of horses for
courses - I know of firms in the UK that have seats of CATIA purchased at
the customers insistance (no CATIA, no work) but choose to use something
else to program their machines because it suits them better.
Quote: Was your seat of HyperMill a stand alone or did it run inside a CAD
program
It ran under Mechanical DeskTop. As I said it was legacy and of about 1996
vintage. I suppose it was good for it's day, but translating models from
SolidWorks into MDT could be a nightmare. I used have a SAT file for the
cosmetic solid and an IGES file for tessalated file creation. If I tried to
use the IGES file on its own a lot of the surfaces would be invisible to the
user as the surface was oriented in the inward direction.
Quote: What does SolidCAM charge for a post processor ?
Nothing. They will write as many posts as I want.
Quote: I take it you can't
construct your own postprocessor just edit an existing one ?
No, you're wrong there. I can write a post from scratch if I want to, but to
be honest, life is too short and the SolidCAM post processor creator is bit
ungainly as it is text based. I have worked with GPost from ICAM in the
past - now that is a wonderful post processor creation tool but VERY
expensive!
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