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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Another mastercam vs hypermill discussion Emphasis on Volumill. T Start date Jun 10, Replies 57 Views 2, T Cast Iron. Joined Jul 23, Location Los Angeles. I know this gets brought up every now and again, I’ve read all the recent posts. I’d like to discuss again before we pull the trigger.
Perhaps someone has some new insight. I just joined a high end aerospace company as their 5 axis guy. We are looking to upgrade our cam system. I use Mastercam, they use Gibbs. We are looking at either Mastercam or Hypermill. Most of our parts are prismatic in nature, less organic or mold type features. But I suspect that will change now that I’m on board.
Everything about hypermill seems great to me. With one BIG exception. They use volumill, which in my experience with Gibbs is an absolute dumpster fire compared to Optirough, or iMachining. Now Gibbs isn’t exactly on top of their game, so it’s possible their implementation of volumills processing isn’t as good as it could be. I have given hypermill a few test cuts to compare to mastercam and Gibbs. The Gibbs toolpath is almost identical.
The mastercam toolpath destroys both. So with all that in mind, do you find that the advantages of hypermill outweigh the dated roughing algorithms found in volumill? Finally tell my anything else I don’t know about hypermill vs mastercam that we should consider before making the purchase. Joined Nov 14, Location canada. I wouldn’t suggest learning a new software and trying to impressing your new employer at the same time.
You won’t be able to do both. You know what Mastercam can do, why risk your reputation on software you don’t know. While I agree with you in principle, I’ve known my new employer for many years. We are good. He knows it’ll be months before we get anywhere. Joined Oct 27, Location On Tour I believe, Hypermill like all has a big learning curve. Joined Sep 8, T said:. Click to expand We’re in Chatsworth area. I’ve definitely heard a lot of good things about NX. But isn’t it primarily useful for Siemens controls?
We are a Heidenhain shop At least in the 5 axis department. I’m sure it doesn’t actually matter, but that’s my understanding anyway. Also what do you dislike about hypermill? I already know what I dislike about mastercam. I think it’s a very good all around cam package, but it certainly has it’s issues.
Maybe 10 percent of the time it sucks Hank on copy is our post developer. He’ll respond with a quote as soon as the form is completed. With that Micron on the way, we’ll want to get the post sorted out as soon as possible. There are posts the come out of the box with NX that could be used in a pinch. But normally we want to have a post ready when the machine lands and is ready for testing.
Best, the mastercam and hypermill quotes i’ve gotten were right along this price, give or take k, but as we all know, thats without a TRUE CAD system. What’s the other ‘grammers there like – up for a challenge?
Do they like change? If they are, why wait until you arrive to update the place? Or are they just telling you yeh yeh yeh we’re interested, while they actually don’t want it? Because splitting the dept to 5ax only, where you have a total different set of tools, potentially sets you up for a whole lot of finger pointing, from the rest of them.
Do you need solidworks – how many models do you create, or is it not many because you receive them from customers – in which case Mastercams Well, NX’s in reality Remembering of course, you need holiday and sick cover – so when Brian is away, “someone” will be able to open your files and drive the software because when you’re away, there WILL be problems I’m not dampening – just pointing out some thinking points Larry Dickman Titanium.
Joined Jan 30, Location Temecula, Ca. Mastercam pretty well sucks, hands down. It’s only advantage is that any idiot can download a crack and learn it on their kitchen table. Hypermill is far beyond. I liked Optirough a lot better than Volumill.
Keep in mind that MC bought Opti, they had nothing to do with it, which is why it works. When I first used Volumill, I was disappointed. I thought it was a real pile of shit. They made some upgrades and now I think it works pretty good. Hypermill has a new roughing module but I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but it’s supposed to blow volumill away.
Larry Dickman said:. Also who did mastercam but Optirough from? I didn’t know that. Is it MW? You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads M.
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Mastercam Translators Mastercam supports the import and export of several file formats. You can find what file format versions are supported in each. Mastercam still looks to the part files (sldprt), therefore they need to be present in the same folder as the assembly file. See all How-To’s. It is a simple fix to open it in SolidWorks and save it again but it is a PITA. Is this a MasterCam Issue or a SolidWorks issue on the computer.
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Machine Simulation is a safe way to prove out 3-axis, 4-axis, or 5-axis Mill or Router toolpaths to make clean, efficient, and accurate programs. See the table below for minimum and recommended system configurations for Mastercam.
These recommendations are based on systems we have in use at CNC Software for testing and evaluation purposes. Our recommendation is to get as much power processor, video card, and memory for your systems as you can afford. Connection to Internet and email is recommended for installation, support, and updates.
CNC Software continues to review the operating system OS requirements for Mastercam with a goal of providing the best possible user experience for our customers. We recommend using Windows 10 version 20H2 or later or later bit Professional editions. While Mastercam may run on other Windows editions such as Home Edition or virtual environments such as Parallels for Mac , it has not been tested on these configurations and is therefore not supported. Mastercam was the last release to officially support Windows 7 as Microsoft ended extended support for the OS in January Mastercam will install on Windows 7 systems but will not be supported.
Future versions of Mastercam will not install on Windows 7. The processor speed will impact how fast the software will calculate and complete tasks. With each release, more and more aspects of Mastercam are becoming multi-core processor aware. Toolpath calculation and Simulation will generally run faster with a multi-core processor. When Mastercam uses all available RAM, it switches to using virtual memory space, which is stored on the hard drive and will dramatically slow the system down.
We recommend a minimum of 8 GB of memory. When purchasing a new computer for Mastercam, one of the most important component is the video card. Other graphics cards can be used, but they must offer full OpenGL 3. Platforms Assemblies Composer User’s Guide DraftSight Professional 7. Detailing and Drawings 6. Player User’s Guide 6.
Free Products 4. Sync User’s Guide 4. Working with Drawing Files 4. Configurations 2. Getting Started 2. Glossary 2. Installation and Licensing 2. Parts and Features 2. Simulation 2. Toolbox 2. Troubleshooting 2. Enterprise PDM 1. Moving from 2D to 3D 1. Projects and documents 1. Settings 1. Welcome 1. Batch renaming files use SW Document Manager? Error opening file that is currently open. File opening issue in Solidworks.
Change Active Configuration of Part without opening file. Error opening file when trying to get latest version. Edit the custom properties of an assembly without opening file. Failed to save document to invalid argument and error encountered when opening file. Opening Files in eDrawings for Mac. You can open all files supported in eDrawings Desktop. Why is it attaching itselfto files.
Opening rhino files in solidworks – invisible surfaces. Hi, One of our client getting issue to open a STEP assembly file which is almost mb in size created from a Creo parametric parent assembly, the STEP file is opening fine in Creo but its taking too much time to load in Solidworks SP5, also found that lots of components are missing after opened in Solidworks, can anyone suggest what is the issue and the best suggestion to fix it.
Importing and Opening Files. Importing and Opening Files You can import a number of 3D and 2D file formats in Composer You can also open native Composer files. Solidworks doesn’t ask to browse for missing files when opening an assembly. Problems opening local file with write access.
Opening Solidworks file in Solidworks Batch Custom Properties Program. Student edition does not let you export in anybother file type than. BUT if you put it into edrawings you can save as.
The slt cannot be used by anything else because it has errors when forming the solid. But using rhinoceros it can then be put into. The student edition definitely allows you to save in step format. I have done it several times in and Name your part to the desired name and you should be done. I had an educational copy of Solidworks a while back that would not let me save as anything other than Solidworks files. Inventor I guess can but I found a simpler way if I just need to send to to someone instead of download another file.