My company is in the need of a 3d CAM program. We design in Solidworks '07
I do 3D milling, cores & cavities, on a 3 axis Hurco. Right now I use MC 8 as a cam program thru an associate shop, I don't think the bosses are going to spring for a seat of MC X right now, $12,000. But we are doing more 3D work so we need our own program.
I am looking at Bobcad-cam, Onecnc, & Rhino as an alternative. I was trained in MC 5.5 at school in the mid '90's but was a manual machinist until 2002 were I taught myself MC 8 3D programming.
What are your suggestions?
How are the learning curves?
Thanks for any input