Mastercam vs. Gibbs

Is there anyone on here who has used both of these CAM software's and would be willing to share their opinions on one vs. the other? I currently use Gibbs and am looking to compare the 2 as I may decide to switch to Mastercam. Please do not comment if you have only used one or the other as I am looking for a comparison.

What type of work do you do?

Mostly 5 axis milling, then 4 and 3 axis milling. A little bit of 3 axis and tiny bit of 4 axis turning.

Closest to using both was having both resellers come into my place and do a demonstration on two of my parts.

Each took me 6 hours to program, proof and tweak by hand.


Gibbs guy spent 20 minutes or so on each to produce a working programs, while explaining to me how he was going about it.

MasterCam guy started over several times trying different ways to tackle as each way had a little issue that did not produce a working program. After about an hour I realized I did not need all the Bells and Whistles that came with the program...at that time. I bought Gibbs, made many thousands of great programs with it over the years...but now after 10-15 years of using I am starting to feel, maybe masterCAM would have been a better choice.
In my opinion Gibbs has gone downhill since it was bought/merged with 3D or whatever with they did. Every year more and more glitches with each release.

If you take a guy with ten years of Gibbs, And a guy with ten years of Mastercam, It's hard to make the switch between the two, They both work good just in different area's, with different terminology and verbage.

SIM said:

Closest to using both was having both resellers come into my place and do a demonstration on two of my parts.

Each took me 6 hours to program, proof and tweak by hand.


Gibbs guy spent 20 minutes or so on each to produce a working programs, while explaining to me how he was going about it.

MasterCam guy started over several times trying different ways to tackle as each way had a little issue that did not produce a working program. After about an hour I realized I did not need all the Bells and Whistles that came with the program...at that time. I bought Gibbs, made many thousands of great programs with it over the years...but now after 10-15 years of using I am starting to feel, maybe masterCAM would have been a better choice.
In my opinion Gibbs has gone downhill since it was bought/merged with 3D or whatever with they did. Every year more and more glitches with each release.

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The only thing I get from this is the MC guy didn't know what he was doing. It's not a reflection on the software...

edit: I get what you are meaning though (should have been more clear on that), if I was getting that demo I would think "not buying this software!"