[Irv Bea]

BIESSE is great , they have a lot of neat features . and super fast
I think the way they program is the way of the future if you want to automate and communicate with other machines
who else has WINSTORE ?
And I have been told there is no other system that works as well with Cabinet vision as does Biesse
and I have lots of friends that are using biesse sucessfully, just not with BOBCAD , and that is where we may have to switch we have mastered tweaking the code in bobcad that it works , but want to try and get training on Biesse works as well
but I agree they are complicated , life was never meant to simple
Having been used to a thermwood control it is a big learning curve

[number000073]

I worked for biesse Service this year,,,very nice machines,,,if I can help,,please let me know

[Irv Bea]

ok how much experience do you have
and on software side

we have a biesse rover B 7.40 FTK flat table 5x12
FTK can not do pendelomn machining
but is there any way if we only use the first 5' of the table that only the first 5' would have vacuum so there would not be as much vacuum loss ?
it has 4 valves 1 approx every 3' and These are opened and closed somewhere in the software side but think they all run together because its an ftk
Im quite sure its something that would be just in the software

[Irv Bea]

also you mentioned you got hsm pro ,
is this someting we should look into and how good does thier post work with Biesse , do they have an iso post as of today

[number000073]

Alphacam has the closest best post processor for Biesse ,,,i mean all functions,, full aggregate ,full saw,,full vacuum zones,,,,HSM post is good as well,,,,,

Biesseworks,,,CIX,CID

[Irv Bea]

Alphacam has the closest best post processor for Biesse ,,,i mean all functions,, full aggregate ,full saw,,full vacuum zones,,,,HSM post is good as well,,,,,

Biesseworks,,,CIX,CID

I don't doubt what you are saying
I am learning how to work around some of the quirks and showing the quirks to Bobcad and than with time they get the post fixed , we do a lot of the same type of work so we are getting it figured out, with time and effort
Starting over I would definitely go with something else possibly Alphacam or Mastercam
the only thing that's keeping me is the cost
Bobcad on the cad side has some neat features and I can out perform the mastercam sales guy ,
So having said that I would probably try Alphacam
so to clarify its the Post processor end of Bobcad we are having issues not the Cad .