HuFlungDung,
The CamSoft does give me an instant wireframe toolpath view generated from my G code, but it also does solid modeled real time animation too. If you have Level-5 of higher it will animate the tool cutting process before you press cycle start.
I had the CamSoft CNC Lite first than I upgraded to CNC Professional and I noticed that CNC Lite would load a program much faster of almost any size than CNC Professional. What I see on CNC Professional is that it makes a complete pass through the program once it loads to check for errors and calculate the part size so that it can automatically display a solid model of my block of material for the tool path simulation.
I would guess that 10 meg program would take a few minutes to load initially, but once loaded every other part runs much faster than even a Fanuc.
I think this would be excellent when using the "smooth on" function for a mill. Once loaded they have a FASTMODE feature that they say can cut 3,000 IPM even on huge programs with short line segments. I never cut this fast myself, but I have used their smooth feature for 3D splines and it does cut fast. |