Hello fellow CNCzone users,
First post and I'm after some advice!
I've read with interest some of the comments already posted on this sort of question.
The company I work for manufacture aircraft components we currently have 4, 5 axis machines used almost exclusively for continuous 5 axis profiling and drilling. We have used Mastercam for the last 8 years to program them. Initially with V8 then V9, we are currently running the last MR for V9. Due to various reasons we didn't update to X but are now looking at purchasing 1 or possibly more new 5 axis machines, for which we will need posts.
This leaves us with three options, get a post for V9 upgrade to the latest version of Mastercam or look at something different.
I think we would struggle to get a post for V9 and although I have quite successfully modified posts I don't think I could write one completely, time as much as anything.
What are people’s thoughts and opinions of the various 5 axis Cam packages? I have always found Mastercam itself adequate from the programming side of things but have found the posts to be lacking at times.
We did look at Hypermill when we upgraded to V9 and didn’t think it offered any more than Mastercam, but that could have been the salesman.
Any experience of CATIA interface/translators would also be interesting as a lot of our customers design in CATIA.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.