Hi, I just got a demo of edgecam yesterday, and I was impressed by the lathe module, supporting very complex machines. But the mill demo was about 5 minutes... So I have a few questions.
I only use solid models, not interested to go back to 2D. How's the capabilities of solid machining? Do you keep having to draw geometry and boundaries and other stuff? Does the software know what's machined and what's not (aware of volumes between stock and part machined so far)? How does it deal with multiple instances of 1 part on a tombstone? How about workshift definition, can you assign workshift to each part and choose the name of it too?
Those would help me decide... I tried CamWorks and liked it too. It's not perfect though. Didn't like GibbsCam at all. I'm using SmartCam right now and sick of it.
Any comments on EdgeCam is appreciated, thanks a lot! |