Mike, I'd like to add that perhaps some of your other people think that we only need to use full blown 3d CADCAM when the complexities of 3d geometry dictate it, but what is often overlooked, is that the processes in 2d are often much more complicated to program for. By this I mean that quite a bit more mental programming effort is required "per line of nc code output" for a part that is made of (many) 2d processes.
This is where I found Onecnc's NC manager to be of immense benefit, because it allows me to document what I used to carry in my head out to the machine. This much more effectively captures what procedures were used, in the event that I come back to the same part in a few months, and want to modify the methods of machining it.
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