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Like was said, very quick once you get the hang of it. If it is simple I prefer Gibbscam, however if I have a complicated part I do usually go to Solidworks to model it.
One of the frustrations I had learning Gibbs, was that you could end up with several points stacked up on top of each other, often enough, causing a failure to connect.
Pull down the View menu, click Labels (iirc) (maybe Draw Points, too)and each point or line's number will show. when you have several stacked up, you see the label as a blurry mess, and you can start deleting points there, until it cleans up. If you didn't know that, anyway.
Keep in mind that you are drawing lines and points, you are drawing geometry, not a part. Sometimes you use the part shape as the geometry, sometimes not. If that didn't make sense, sit down and draw a straight line, with a terminator at each end, and see how many different shapes and sizes of cut path you can create. By the time you play with the offsets and various cut path strategies, the options are huge. Whether you find a use fr all of them... gonna depend what you are making.
Cheers
Trev
It is really very simple. In someways simpler than SW. Go through a couple of tutorials.
I think this is what is baffling. I am used to drawing the part and applying toolpath to it. I started using the tutorials. SW is so easy though, I'm going to need self control to not give up on creating geometry in Gibbs.
Really??? How is that, most CAM software I've worked with the CAD side is kind of crappy.
Guess you don't use SW enough.
Sketch just you do with a pencil and paper in SW, doesn't get any easier than that!
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