5-axis CAM Software
5-axis CAM Software
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We are planning to buy a 5-axis CAM Software. Currently Unigraphics is actively in our minds. Can anyone compare this program with other 5-axis CAM programs in the market?
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RE: 5-axis CAM Software
Absoleutly horrible to use of course, and brain meltingly complicated, but incredibly powerful....
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Has anybody used Euclid?
RE: 5-axis CAM Software
Another program we bought for 3 axis use, but we find ourseleves using more and more for 5 axis work is MasterCAM.
Very easy to use, (I pretty much taught myself on this one), and very powerful. Nice modelling package too.
RE: 5-axis CAM Software
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RE: 5-axis CAM Software
If you're in aerospace making tough parts, USE NCL, and combine it with either Mastercam or SurfCam for the simpler stuff.
NCL is a language based program, so it's incredibly easy to alter things if you have any experience writing programs with decision loops or variables. Do you need to know lots of math? NO! Just logic. If you can figure out that you need to keep the tool tilted forward yet still in contact with the floor, but also tangent to the side of a contoured wall at some height, then at a specific distance start a transition to being tangent to the next wall you run into, all the while never violating the "floor" surface or changing the forward lean of the cutter... And if you want to do this with bull, ball, wheel, lollypop, taper, full radius wheel, barrel or truncated large diameter balls, NCL is it and has been for 20 years!!! If you fight cutter-whip, or need to machine with the top of a wheel cutter, the top of a bell shaped cutter and at the same time control it's contact with several other surfaces, it's powerful.
The only package I've seen that looks as powerful is the one "Think 3" packages with their software for CNC. It's been a big hit in Europe and detriot.
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RE: 5-axis CAM Software
If you haven't already purchased a 5 axis software package, you may want to consider this. The gentleman that suggested NCL has some great contributions I would agree with.
I have worked with about 10 different CAM packages in the last 20 years and have found for the really complex stuff NCL is the best route for full control. For simple parts that don't require controlling more than 3 axis', I have found that Surfcam is the best.
Now, having said that, NCCS that produces NCL has their latest version that is pretty user friendly and simplifies the programming to make it more efficient for the simple parts. However, I would also look at EdgeCAM. I saw a demo of it a few months back. It might be a worhty solution for you- I don't know how they do in the multiaxis programming arena though. It looked like a great contender for the 2 1/2 axis market.
Ask for demos, but also have them program your parts as well- not just the canned demos they come prepared with.
Good luck!
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