The bottom line is with your budget I think you will be happy with CAMWorks. I worked at a company that used Gibs and they were not happy with it's functionality but again it was not supported and I have no idea what revision it was.
I have no idea what GIBs CAM currently sells for.
MasterCAM is expensive we paid $17K for 3-axis mill and 2-axis lathe.we might have some other options but I don't use it on a daily basis because it's nod locked to our R&D mold makers machine. Techsoft is a main stream CAM package on par with MasterCAM. With that budget you might have eliminated my entire list with the exception of CAMWorks. RE: best CAM software for SolidWorks rfus (Mechanical) 17 Aug 05 11:37 "There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea" Bernard-Paul Heroux SurfCAM (great for mold design so I've been told) MasterCAM (we use this for mold design)Ĥ. If I had my choice to set up a shop this is what I would buy:Ģ. We have legacy data (AutoCAD) that is brought into M-CAM as 2D and SWx which is brought in as IGES. We have one seat of MasterCAM in which it is used to generate code. I'm not sure I would want someone having the ability to change the design just because the CAM software is inside of SWx. But some companies have lead machinist that write code but don't design. Most large companies have manufacturing engineers that do tooling design and CNC programming. What I mean with that statement is do the design engineers generate G-Code along with doing the product design. A piece of software should not be judge by it having a just means that MasterCAM and CAMWorks people are busy producing code while SurfCAM guys are whinning because their systems might have limitations.įirst you would have to decide if your business process can except a integrated CAM program within SWx. Here are a couple of threads worth reading thread559-115345 & thread559-90593.
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