[DingbatCA]

I have used CutViewer for years. It felt old and slow when I bough it in 2005. Now it feels VERY slow.

I am looking for new CNC simulator software. It needs to be able to handle large blocks of g-code, 500000+. Any suggestions?

[Al_The_Man]

Not sure of the limit, but try CncSimulator.com
Al.

[DingbatCA]

Slower then cutviewer by 4x. It works well enough for free ware. Anything else out there? I don't mind paying good money for good software.

[muddiver]

Hello,

i don´t know what you want from a good simulator..
But try

Predator Virtual CNC software for 3D CNC machine simulation, CNC verification, setup sheets and reverse engineering

Greetings from germany, Tom

[DingbatCA]

Predator Virtual CNC looks nice. I am waiting on an evaluation code.

What exactly I am looking for: An easy to use interface with simple functions like measure. More then most things, I care about speed. It is very frustrating when the simulator takes 3 hours.

[muddiver]

I-ve bought the Virtual CNC included in BobCAD,

its quick, but its slow when turning/paning graphics ( maybe my Graphicscard isn´t the quickest ).

Be sure to buy the right version for you, some don´t support 4th axis, but when you try the demo you´ll see..

Hope it works for you!

Greetings, Tom

[DingbatCA]

Wow Predator Virtual CNC is way beyond me. WAY to many functions, I just want a simple simulator.

BobCad looks like a good product, but costs to much. I will head back to my googling and see what I can find.

[dertsap]

if your looking for something basic then this works ok NCSim

[mcphill]

Is this along the lines of something you would find useful?

GWizardE: A Machinist's CNC G-Code Editor

[DingbatCA]

NCSim is nice, but VERY slow to plot a tool path. I found my CNC was faster.

GWizardE seems like a nice peace of software. It failed to load my larger part file. It ran out of memory... Not my system, the software is 32-bit (which means a max of 2G of RAM).

Any other ideas?

[dertsap]

NCSim is nice, but VERY slow to plot a tool path. I found my CNC was faster.

?

you can change the speed setting and speed it up