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I think with the constant changes in such a short time it is hard to beta test it.

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Nothing came of it.I think all software has some sort of bugs no matter how good it is. Hell, I even gave the Product Manager for CW and the product manager SW Cam a 1.5hr presentation on ways the software could be improved. They add some new features/tools to an existing product.Д®ither way, it still feels like they don't even use their own product in a real world setting and only fix bugs when people complain about them, and sometimes even that doesn't work. 2021 isn't completely re-written for 2022. Also, comparing a software 'update' to a new product release is not a great comparison. I was just trying to emphasize that the software, even at SP5, still has bugs and some of those bugs have been present for years. But like you said, it's often more about what people prefer and are used to. I've demo'd it over the course of a few weeks, but never became proficient. I think why Mastercam is held in such high regard is because it's implementation of Moduleworks is better if not the best. If Camworks and Hypermill both use Volumill, why is Hypermill so much faster? Well, the licensed software is implemented and utilized better. In a comparison of toolpath generation times on a seemingly simple part using dynamic roughing or volumill, Camworks took hours, Mastercam 45 mins, Hypermill 10 mins, CamTool 1 minute. But other than that, they do their own toolpaths AFIK.

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Esprit does license the MachineWorks kinematics simulation, and Hypermill licenses Volumill like Camworks does. I'm sure there are more, but I was only looking at Top Tier CAM systems. There are a few companies that do their own toolpaths that I found when I did a CAM system evaluation recently and those are Esprit, Hypermill, and CamTool.

One thing I want to add to this, even though MW drives the backend calculations, you can still implement the technology poorly. When someone is looking for the 'Best', they are really looking for the best implementation of ModuleWorks.

So it made sense for me to stick with CAMWorks, I can make it do any and everything I need to do no problem, I've never not been able to get it to create the toolpath I needed.Yup.

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after doing trial and a lot of research and learning most the CAM software (CAMWorks, MasterCam, NX, Gibbs, etc the list goes on) license their toolpaths from ModuleWorks and MachineWorks, (you can go to both their pages and see their partners listed) I came to realize there isn't really a 'best' CAM software, at the end of the day behind the scenes of the software its doing the same thing, and only what you see on your screen changes and every programmer is different and prefers the software to be laid out one way or the other and you get accustom to where buttons, switches and settings are and finding what you are efficient in and is user friendly for yourself is the 'best' CAM for you, it may not be the same for everyone. So it made sense for me to stick with CAMWorks, I can make it do any and everything I need to do no problem, I've never not been able to get it to create the toolpath I needed.

When I finally went on my own, I gave a few other CAM systems a try, but after doing trial and a lot of research and learning most the CAM software (CAMWorks, MasterCam, NX, Gibbs, etc the list goes on) license their toolpaths from ModuleWorks and MachineWorks, (you can go to both their pages and see their partners listed) I came to realize there isn't really a 'best' CAM software, at the end of the day behind the scenes of the software its doing the same thing, and only what you see on your screen changes and every programmer is different and prefers the software to be laid out one way or the other and you get accustom to where buttons, switches and settings are and finding what you are efficient in and is user friendly for yourself is the 'best' CAM for you, it may not be the same for everyone. I will use till it gets killed off, we have 3000 seats here at ASU and 8000 seats of SolidWorks to boot for our students to use across campus.There were a couple features I really liked in HSMWorks but not enough to make the switch and at the time I worked for a bigger company that brought me on to manage/move their programming department away from SurfCam and find something more efficient, we tried a few different systems, but in the end the programmers decided to go with CAMWorks, it ended up being about a 50/50 split, half put forth the effort and were happy with CAMWorks, the other half went back to SurfCam. Hence why people have left no new features like they have added to Fusion, FYI they haven't really added new stuff to Inventor CAM either. Have used it since before AD bought it (stupid SolidWorks) and it was going well with updates and then not so much except to stay current with SolidWorks versions. I for one am a die hard HSMWorks guy, so damn easy to use.

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