ah, well then another reason its shit... lol
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cost me lots of time after work. nothing is free, ever. but that time i put in after work learning different softwares has definitely paid off for me.
Last year was the change. They changed to a licensing system, still free, you just have to put your email in, takes about 2 minutes.
So now, the software doesn't expire, your license just needs to be renewed. You would do this yearly.
rootsandstones
Aluminum
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2019
- Location
- Switzerland
Which other CAM's have a learning edition (where i don't need to be enrolled at an university)?
if you cant find a way around getting an EDU email... i'm afraid nobody can help you.
DouglasJRizzo
Titanium
- Joined
- Jun 7, 2011
- Location
- Ramsey, NJ.
It's "Big Daddy" for a few reasons.
Its interface is pretty straight forward, and its pricing was a bit more reasonable than many of the others.
There are alternatives and they fit certain places that MC doesn't.
I use PowerStation for most of my basic work. Inexpensive, you write your own posts, and it gets the job done.
When I worked for Doosan, I used GibbsCam. It worked well enough and packed a lot of power.
Its interface is pretty straight forward, and its pricing was a bit more reasonable than many of the others.
There are alternatives and they fit certain places that MC doesn't.
I use PowerStation for most of my basic work. Inexpensive, you write your own posts, and it gets the job done.
When I worked for Doosan, I used GibbsCam. It worked well enough and packed a lot of power.
Volitan
Hot Rolled
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- Sep 16, 2006
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- Long Island, New York
I usually dont jump in these cad cam wars threads, but I just got a quote to add a mastercam seat for a guy here to take some load off me and I have to say, I'm seriously thinking of giving him my Mastercam and I'll just use the Inventor cam we already have...
$9k for a seat of 2D + wire
Yikes
$9k for a seat of 2D + wire
Yikes
Small edits and whatnot, I agree. However, for big stuff like multi-axis linking and positional logic, it's a bit wild. About a year or two ago they changed the function calls to different functions. Meaning, the posts we had dialed in no longer functioned as they always had because the kernel was looking for different function commands. To make matters worse, they didn't release an updated post manual so there was no way of even finding which function calls were changed. This is how we crashed a 5-axis machine, and yet another reason F360 sucks in terms of reliability. Don't even get me started on the Powermill and Featurecam technology they're attempting to stuff into fusion. Even the software engineers know it's not working well.
I guess at the end of the day, fusion isn't reliable enough for shops where time is money. It's buggy, and the technology is constantly changing without any real oversight and testing. They just throw stuff at the wall and wait for users to report issues. Personally, I can't afford to deal with that crap.
DouglasJRizzo
Titanium
- Joined
- Jun 7, 2011
- Location
- Ramsey, NJ.
The GibbsCam I had was closer to $50k with everything.
Volitan
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 16, 2006
- Location
- Long Island, New York
I'm sure that's for everything though. I'm talking just 2D Mill and wire. That price includes our multi seat discount too.
DouglasJRizzo
Titanium
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- Jun 7, 2011
- Location
- Ramsey, NJ.
True on all counts.
Do you want to pay $9k to fix the broken machine or pay $9k to not break the machine
...before the fusion gang attacks, this is just a joke based on the two quoted comments. I shouldn't have to point that out but I can already picture the next 3 pages in this thread if I didn't.
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Volitan
Hot Rolled
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- Long Island, New York
Do you want to pay $9k to fix the broken machine or pay $9k to not break the machine
...before the fusion gang attacks, this is just a joke based on the two quoted comments. I shouldn't have to point that out but I can already picture the next 3 pages in this thread if I didn't.
These threads always go bad. Every software seems to have it's evangelists. I was just suffering from sticker shock when I happened to see this thread so I chimed in.
I did put in a call to Bobcad though to see how much 2 seats of wire would be
I work at a university in engineering, the faculty teach the students NX from day one. The student design teams (SAE Formula and Baja, ect.) all use Solidworks and I do everything in Inventor. I could probably get MC here for free (and it wouldn't hurt me to learn it) but I've been using Inventor for so long, I'm hesitant to change.
First time I see university teaching NX-Solidworks and not Solidworks-MasterCam. What country you are?
Alot of schools these days are teaching NX. I think it stems from Ideas back in the day being pretty popular at colleges.
I've heard of a couple schools teaching CAMWorks now that it is included free with SolidWorks, or I should say SolidWorksCAM, which is just a licensed version of CAMWorks.
triumph406
Diamond
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- Sep 14, 2008
- Location
- ca
Amazon is now getting desperate for me to renew my Amazon prime. It's now saying if I had an .edu e-mail address I can get Prime 50% off.
cj.abraham
Plastic
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- Aug 3, 2015
I'm in the U.S.,I'm sure it's not heavily taught in schools, we have faculty that love NX so they teach it, the students don't like it and complain about it to me all the time, but I tell them it's a good knowledge to have and it will look good on your resume.
