Deyeno
Aluminum
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2012
- Location
- Singapore / New Zealand
Hi All,
I have been approached to help develop a product, for which there is a market, and also source a suitable Mill and Lathe, part of which is also looking for a CAD / CAM package which is suitable for a Brother M140X1 Machining Center(Dealer has 3 units arriving in 3 months), the lathe will mostly like be a QTP 50s or QTP 100S(Dealer has both machines in stock).
The machining is not complicated, relatively straight forward, but need to do operations on all 6 faces of the blocks, similiar to the attached drawing. The raw material dimensions will be 180mm x 80mm x 22mm.
Materials being machined will be Aluminum split between (Grade 6061-T6), Stainless Steel (Grade 410) and if the need arises 2 to 4 pieces of Titanium (Grade 5(Ti 6Al/4V).
So I would like to hear from Owners / Programmers / End Users , whom run this machine, regarding the Pros / Cons of the software they are using.
Brother here are recommending MasterCam, but what I have been reading here on the forum, seems there are problems, but as always that can be subjective as people always have their own preference.
Thanks ...
Kevin
I have been approached to help develop a product, for which there is a market, and also source a suitable Mill and Lathe, part of which is also looking for a CAD / CAM package which is suitable for a Brother M140X1 Machining Center(Dealer has 3 units arriving in 3 months), the lathe will mostly like be a QTP 50s or QTP 100S(Dealer has both machines in stock).
The machining is not complicated, relatively straight forward, but need to do operations on all 6 faces of the blocks, similiar to the attached drawing. The raw material dimensions will be 180mm x 80mm x 22mm.
Materials being machined will be Aluminum split between (Grade 6061-T6), Stainless Steel (Grade 410) and if the need arises 2 to 4 pieces of Titanium (Grade 5(Ti 6Al/4V).
So I would like to hear from Owners / Programmers / End Users , whom run this machine, regarding the Pros / Cons of the software they are using.
Brother here are recommending MasterCam, but what I have been reading here on the forum, seems there are problems, but as always that can be subjective as people always have their own preference.
Thanks ...
Kevin