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The T4, on the other hand, has the heft and feel associated with the object I mistook it for. Most dash cams, capable or not, have a rather cheap feel. If you already know Solidworks, then it will go really fast.įor my situation where I design and sell my own products it's the only way to go.When I pulled the Z-Edge T4 out of its box, I was thinking the company had made a mistake and sent me a digital camera instead.
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But learning two software packages well is not a simple undertaking. It was painful for me to sit through and made me feel sorry for him.Ī cam package that integrates into a good cad program is the way to go if you think you will need to do any designing or modifying at all. The other day I was at my buddy's shop helping him with some design work and watching him work on some toolpaths in Gibbs importing, exporting, and trying to get things to work. I've worked with other Cam packages like Mastercam and Visualmill, demoed others and it's not a contest. Then of course if the part is used in a machine, everything is tied togther along with the other related parts. This saves me hours of work reworking softjaw design for simple change.
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If I have to make a design change to a part, all the vise jaws and toolpaths are parametrically linked to the part and everything will update in seconds. I design all my part softjaws and setups and toolspaths in a solidworks assembly. The first setup can be machined with standard vise jaws, but the rest the setups often require softjaws. I did try Camworks and Solidcam and did not like them nearly as much.įor example, I mostly machine parts that require 3-4 setups to complete. This is not to mention that HSMworks is a really nicely laid out Cam package that's powerful and easy to learn. No importing, exporting or keeping track of files, because everything is kept togther in one place. Then when you integrate a slick package like HSMworks into it, the results are devastating. No Cam system can touch a Cad moder like Solidworks for getting work done on the drawing, modeling and design side. The multi workpiece coord stuff isnt something id personally need too much as normally low quantity stuff for me but for production i can see this would be very useful.īy the way have you demoed XR3 lots of new gizmos there that might help (Templates, HS toolpaths, Repick and lots more!! ) I have to say these things have been mentioned on the Onecnc forum quite a bit especially the thread milling (which there are whispers this might be comin soon due to us all continually posting about it ) Which i assume could be similar to the helical paths you require too. I have not tried this in the other packages yet, however I'm sure it is easier than how we have done it with OneCNC.Hi Jolson It could also be done in OneCNC, but it was like jumping through hoops to modify the diameter of the helical path (resizing the helix in our CAD package, then reloading the pattern in OneCNC and redoing the toolpath). I found it extremely easy in Gibbs to produce a thread mill program that worked out perfectly. Second, helical bore and helical toolpaths. It would be very nice to be able to set up a program to make multiple parts in more than one orientation. There are a few things we think it is lacking.įirst, the ability to rotate/move toolpaths. One thing I do not like about Gibbs and that is you have all the geometry and part rendering but cannot make a real Print from it. It was a pain, but got it all worked out. I had to find the best of the lots and then still required a bit of tweaking which they did very quickly without charge. I went with the library and was issued several for each machine. So I choose Gibbs, for me it was the right choice.Īs far as Post Processors, Gibbs had a library of Posts for my machines at I believe 250ish each, or I could write my own using the included Post-Haste. All very nice but I just wanted good parts, programmed easily and quickly. I watched other sales-guru's program the same part and I knew they knew what they where doing, but there seemed to be very few re-occurring steps with lots of options. It seemed to be the same key choices with variations, made over and over again cutting down on my learning curve. I let the sales-guru do his thing and as he went step by step thru the process and it just made sence to me. I looked at several packages and decided on Gibbs.