I had been a Surfcam for 15+ years when I came to my present job. I want to thank all of you who responded with positive remarks. 'how do I get to xxxx and make my cut like this' will be the biggest challenge.
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Like was said, probably alot of just learning the terminology and the actual software navigation i.e. Seriously, I don't know NX, but if you have been using cam for 7 years now, surely you can pick something new up. Also, isn't that "hiding toolpath features" one of the biggest bitches about mastercam?! Too many button (mouse) clicks if I recall the latest bashing haha. Mastercam in the year 2000 is a very different program than it is now.
PaulFunny you haven't used it in 15 years but you "know" it will put mastercam to shame. Having used Mastercam for 7 years, you already have what it takes. Their customer service was awesome at that time, I don't know about now. Take advantage of any resources available to you. Sounds like this company has been using it already. We took our other CAM software off of the PC's and had to bite the bullet and learn NX. As for 2D toolpaths, NX is very strong even though it emphasizes 3D. But I will say, once you use a program like Mastercam and learn the terminology inherent in all CAM systems, you will take to NX and never look back. NX hides stuff all over the place and certain features of the toolpaths are hidden 2-3 pages deep in some cases, much like Mastercam. I don't know what it is like today but it will put Mastercam to shame. I have to say it was the most powerful CAM software I used. My company was offering Solidworks too and i would say Solidworks was at least 2x my popular to do work with.īut a lot depends on if you have access to tutorial, books and other experts to help teach youĭon't be afraid of it. In my opinion NX was so hard to use it put my former company at a competitive disadvantage as it took longer to do anything compared to Solidworks and Mastercam. in my opinion NX was harder to learn than Solidworks and Mastercam mostly by lack of books on it and nobody where i worked was expert enough to help teach me. If you can get help by somebody actually using it then instead of being stuck for hours or days a teacher can show you in seconds what to do. after finding book on it and doing built in NX tutorial after only a year i was able to actually do CAD CAM with it. Writing a post processor for a Prototrak took me over 100 tries.įor myself after 5 years i did not get far. for myself i found NX difficult but was able to eventually do CAD and CAM on it.
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i believe it is a install option that some do not bother to save hard drive space. NX has option to have a built in tutorial which i highly recommend doing, it is not always installed. It weighs heavily on my mind wondering if I can pick up NX quickly and be able to generate reliable G-Code. How similar are the two packages and what can I expect as far as a transition from MasterCam to NX. The company I'm presently with doesn't really have a Design Engineer so the machining I do now is on Solids that I have designed, or files that are supplied to me from a variety of design packages. The company I am considering going to uses NX to program DMG-Mori 3 axis and 5 axis mills as well at their turning center. I'm very comfortable with MasterCam in 2.5D(almost automatic) operations but continue to learn each and every time I get into 3D surfacing and solids importing and modifying. I use MasterCam everyday, but mostly on 2.5D and maybe 20% in 3D surfacing. I have been using MasterCam for the last 7+ years and am now facing a opportunity to move to another company.
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