John, We just had a 1-1/2 hour demo of Master cam milling level 2 V7 & V8 beta (2-1/2 axis) the modeler is very nice solid extruding/subtracting unlimited construction lines nice trimming dimensioning, all the toys. It drilled holes quite well, didn't face mill very well and the work planes for indexing around a Horizontal machine's index table were not as easily created, there is also no automatic resequencing of tool path or tool sorting once tool path is created other than grabbing each machining operation off a list and repositioning the whole operation as a unit in a different order. It's one main flaw is you can't edit he tool path elements that are generated. The demo guy did a pocketing cut which had a lot of repetitious passes through the a valley which you could have doctored up in SmartCam but would have been nightmare to deal with weeding out of the actual G-code. The translator from AutoCAD would only get the wire frame elements for the .dwg file so you still had to write out a .sat file from AutoCAD and import the .sat into MasterCam to get the solid model. The mold/die making package (available for another $1,400) looked good though, it had a lot more gouge checking in it than SmartCam.
I guess we may need it to keep up with the changing versions of translators to still be able to import Cad files, but It still needs more development. P.S. They did say in one of the next versions tool path editing is going to be added! Marty > -----Original Message----- > From: John Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:25 PM > To: [MFG-SMARTCAM] > Subject: [mfg-smartcam] MASTER CAM > > > Anybody ever tried MasterCam? > If so how did it compare to smartcam. > Thank's John > > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== > ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
