Re: Beneficial To Upgrade to MeshCAM 6 (and/or MeshCAM 7)?
Hey Tom-
It's been a number of years since V5 so I could be wrong (I should know this anyway) but I believe V6 was a free upgrade to V5 so your license code might work as it. V6 upgraded a lot of internals and made it cross-platform to run on the Mac. There were not a lot of features added though.
The V7 development has been "meandering" at best as I try to figure out how to move forward. After a couple of years of poking and R&D, I'd do it differently if I was starting today but it's beginning to settle down. I've been holed alone up in an Airbnb for a half a week trying to get V7 ready to go so I'd expect a number of uploads in the next few days. I think I have most of the problems fixed and I hope that V7 is solid and reliable as of yesterday. Bug reports might prove me wrong though.
Regarding missing features, there are a few things that aren't enabled yet but most are minor. Most notably I haven't moved over the 4th axis mode because it was never what I'd call complete and it might make the UI less consistent if the same UI has to work for 3 and 4 axis. I'd look at adding 4th axis mode back in if I could make it much better than before.
There are no size limitations for V7.
Right now, the focus on V7 is to make better toolpaths with less user work. The version that got uploaded earlier today added a brand new 2D machining mode that is much faster to calculate and allows ramped entry.
I'll probably try to extend some of this work to make a better 2.5D mode as well over time.
Try V7, again, I think it'll work with your code, and it will install to a separate directory so it will not interfere with V5 or V6.
Rob
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