Turning on the other hand, is just shit all those who have nothing good to say about HSMWorks and turning are right on the money as far as I'm concerned. Sometimes I just throw up my hands and go back to my Mastercrap. I've watched Keith using it for 2 1/2 years now and there isn't anything he can't make with it but Holy Crap, the time and dicking around it sometimes takes is mind blowing and he's an expert user. If you can tolerate a lot of screwing around to get the surfacing toolpath you want and are willing to invest what it takes to get really good at it, it'll make very good parts nicer than I was able to do with MasterCam.
If you do a lot of 3D surfacing, the adaptive roughing is super useful and well worth the other nuisances once you learn the stupid way you have to define your tool boundaries. If you do very conventional stuff and are free to not care how it goes about it, it will make good, if huge amounts of code and you'll get your parts. Open a feature to recall what you did to it.your operations and toolpaths are all fucked up again.Īdd a configuration to a model in a totally different job setup.you guessed it. The number of times I have to re-generate all the toolpaths because I've done something really simple in the CAD side is a continual annoyance, and when you've got lots of adaptive toolpaths with small stepovers consuming a squillion lines of code, it wastes an enormous amount of time.Īdd a sketch to control a toolpath.the previous operations and toolpaths are all fucked up.
The other great weakness is also one of its great 's associativity with the CAD program. It'll do such weird shit sometimes that I've learned NEVER to run a toolpath that hasn't been checked every which way till Sunday, and this is super simple stuff like cutting a runner and gates in a mold.
I find it very difficult to control whenever I'm doing anything at all out of the has a real mind of its own and needs to be tricked into doing sort of what you want as soon as you exceed its comfort zone in any way.Įven simple things like where to start a contour milling operation.you can fight forever to start where you want it to instead of where it wants to, and if you don't trick it just 'll break your heart when it whistles down totally unexpectedly and wipes out a feature on your part because you forgot to hide your stock model when you checked the toolpath I'm not a big fan either and I have the benefit of having a business partner who was one of the technical consultants when HSMWorks first came on the market, knows the software extremely well and LOVES it.
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