I want to buy a software can do multisided cut and support 4th axis

[bonmotwang]

Not sure where to post this thread.

[Superman]

There are many to choose from.

Have a look at the ZONE Forum's list under "Cam Software"
-make a list of your machine's capabilities,
-make a wish list of future machines
- realistically look at your own capability, can I learn new tricks easy, will I stick with it over the long haul, etc

Look into the software, make a question sheet that you should apply to all prospects,
demo it, use criteria that you can compare one to another. Leave cost out of the criteria until final choices.
Use a point system ( like 0=bad, 10=good ). Highest 5 for consideration, then sort by price, by support, by ease of use. You will narrow it down

Good Hunting

[awerby]

It has wizards for both rotary cutting and N-sided indexing; it's simple to use but powerful and you can try it for free for a month: DeskProto offers rapid prototyping using an affordable cnc milling machine: DeskProto is 3D cam software for model making.

Andrew Werby
ComputerSculpture.com — Home Page for Discount Hardware & Software

Originally Posted by bonmotwang Not sure where to post this thread.

[bonmotwang]

Originally Posted by awerby It has wizards for both rotary cutting and N-sided indexing; it's simple to use but powerful and you can try it for free for a month: DeskProto offers rapid prototyping using an affordable cnc milling machine: DeskProto is 3D cam software for model making. Andrew Werby ComputerSculpture.com — Home Page for Discount Hardware & Software

Wow this is cool. Can Mastercam do the same?

[TheBigJW]

Originally Posted by bonmotwang Wow this is cool. Can Mastercam do the same?

It sure can. For about 25k....

John