Yes, the Basic version has the region capability, they had to keep that in there, the product would be too limited without it. Basically from a "top down" view you can break your workpiece into as many regions as you need to, and specify individual machining operations for each region. The regions can overlap if need be, so this does give you a lot of flexibility.
What's Basic missing compared to the full version that's really important? I'm still figuring that out, there are some more complex machining methods, and the ability to specify more complex stock shapes than a square block. If haven't seen a need for these yet, but we'll see.
The Basic version doesn't support ramping into a cutting procedure, which I feel is a pretty glaring deficiency, but I don't think the full version has that either.
Paul T. |