[JIMMY]

I would like to have your opinions on Mastercam vs Unigraphics.

My shop is having me look into learning unigraphics for manufacturing. I would like to get some input from you guys if I could.

[JIMMY]

Nobody has anything to say

[tobyaxis]

Hey Jimmy!!

I have heard that UG has Superior CAD, GUI, and Functionality over MC.

Sorry, I was very busy today, just got home.

[Mike Mattera]

What kind of work do you do? High end 3D maybe, but If you already own Mastercam I wouldn't waste my money. Yes they have excellent modeling capabilities. They'll talk about the the associative integration of Cad & Cam. But the truth is there are still many times where you'll still have to re-chain/re-select the geometry in en existing toolpath.

Mike Mattera

[weirdharold]

Truth in what Mike says & I think JP sums it up pretty well in the emastercam forum. Trying to learn NX5 at work for close to 12 months now & still don't have a solid handle on it. Use Mastercam at my part time day job, & was tool-pathing in a couple of week's & simple 3D & 4 axis stuff in 6 month's. Only work with mill & wire. my2c
Harold C.

[CNCRim]

Unigraphic is very expensive, but much better software. More learning curve.

Mastercam easier find programmer for it, cheaper and can get job done just like every other Cad/Cam.

[DMF_TomB]

In my opinion Mastercam is faster,better, easier than Unigraphics for CAM. For CAD I prefer Solidworks. My company was using Unigraphics but laid off most of the Engineers. Other equipment we buy from other companies was done on Solidworks which I learned and prefer now.
........Mastercam is better for 1 part or at least very few parts in an assembly. After all when fabricating you usually make parts one at a time. Solidworks and Unigraphics are better for larger assemblies with more parts. Also programs like Solidworks can show bent or rolled sheetmetal and also what the piece would look like before bending and rolling. So I prefer Solidworks or Unigraphics for CAD and Mastercam for using the CAD model (part) for doing CAM.

[John Holmes]

Has Mastercam improved it's model associativity in X3 or do you still have to reload model and start over?

[tobyaxis]

Has Mastercam improved it's model associativity in X3 or do you still have to reload model and start over?

You may have to do some reading on the Emastercam Forum.

[HAR THA]

I think master cam is suitable for small plant and this software is cheap.
Unigraphics is better software for engineer. But for me I like master cam most.(group)

[JIMMY]

I asked the same question in emastercam. I work in a mold shop. I do full 3d work. With today's market everything has to done as fast as possible, with mastercam I can get the job done pretty fast. Nx looks to be very slow to get the job done. There is to many dialog boxes to go to just for the simplest thing.

[tobyaxis]

I asked the same question in emastercam. I work in a mold shop. I do full 3d work. With today's market everything has to done as fast as possible, with mastercam I can get the job done pretty fast. Nx looks to be very slow to get the job done. There is to many dialog boxes to go to just for the simplest thing.

Jimmy,

Have you looked at SW 2009?? They are doing some pretty wild things these days.

[Steve Arteman]

We have UG Catia and Mastercam, Drawings and Engineering Assemblies UG is the software I use.
Mastercam completly blows UG and catia out of the water with cam for speed and ability to learn.
The learning curve is big with both UG and catia check out your options on training
Steve Arteman
www.cad2cam.net

[lovecnc2003]

Mastercam is my favorite CAM software

[encarlisle]

Jimmy

your talking about two different animals. In all respects cad and cam ug is so much better there is no comparison, it also costs 10 times as much so it should be.

[kujirasan]

I trained on UNIGRAPHICS and Mastercam, and give you honest opinion.
Unigraphics is highly sophisticated software and is fully integrated cad/cam, it has a very high learning curve, it originally belonged to Macdonald Douglass before they were taken over by Boeing!
It can do extremely difficult tasks and its CAD is exceptional!
Remember that UNIGRAPHICS is a PARAMETRIC software!
Mastercam, no where comes close to it, its cad is antiquated one, it is like comparing note pad with word processor!
It depends on what you do, and how much you like to spend on the software! It is horses for courses!
I personally hated both of them, if I had the choice would go for SOLIDCAM with SOLIDWORKS combined.
You can get lot of books on MASTERCAM, there is nothing in English on UNIGRAPHICS CAM, the books available are in German, I used the German book to teach from, and from Thailand as well! For English you have to use the help, and that is pretty lousy! Ironically, the Germans ended up buying it, as they had the best teaching books and materials for it!