Thank you I am still looking for that killer package similar to smart cam or
should I say
(smart cam 2 the resurrection ) ha! wishful thinking.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Manhart, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'John Wright' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [MFG-SMARTCAM]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Murdoch, Christoph
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Irwin, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sawickyj, Teofil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam] MASTER CAM
>John,
>
>We just had a 1-1/2 hour demo of Master cam milling level 2 V7 & V8 beta
>(2-1/2 axis) the modeler is very nice solid extruding/subtracting unlimited
>construction lines nice trimming dimensioning, all the toys. It drilled
>holes quite well, didn't face mill very well and the work planes for
>indexing around a Horizontal machine's index table were not as easily
>created, there is also no automatic resequencing of tool path or tool
>sorting once tool path is created other than grabbing each machining
>operation off a list and repositioning the whole operation as a unit in a
>different order. It's one main flaw is you can't edit he tool path
elements
>that are generated. The demo guy did a pocketing cut which had a lot of
>repetitious passes through the a valley which you could have doctored up in
>SmartCam but would have been nightmare to deal with weeding out of the
>actual G-code.
>The translator from AutoCAD would only get the wire frame elements for the
>.dwg file so you still had to write out a .sat file from AutoCAD and import
>the .sat into MasterCam to get the solid model.
>The mold/die making package (available for another $1,400) looked good
>though, it had a lot more gouge checking in it than SmartCam.
>
>I guess we may need it to keep up with the changing versions of translators
>to still be able to import Cad files, but It still needs more development.
>
>P.S. They did say in one of the next versions tool path editing is going to
>be added!
>
>Marty
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:25 PM
>> To: [MFG-SMARTCAM]
>> Subject: [mfg-smartcam] MASTER CAM
>>
>>
>> Anybody ever tried MasterCam?
>> If so how did it compare to smartcam.
>> Thank's John
>>
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