Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CAM Software: Opinions Wanted

Jeff:

If you can get BobCad for under $1,000.00 and that is within your budget then
I think you will find it to be your best bet. I do a lot of work with large
companies that have numerous CNC machines (Large industrial wood routers) and
many of them are using BobCad with good results. It can be configured for
most controls and you can set up Macros in it to further configure it to work
well with controls.

One of my customers is using CncPro on a machine that I recently did a
retro-fit on because of it's age etc. and they use BobCad for both their CAD
drawings and the CAM for generating NC code.

I hope this is some help.

Personally I use a software package written by Licom in England called
AlphCAM but the 5 axis version I have is priced well over $10,000.00 U.S.D.
so I don't think it is the one for you :-)



Regards,

Randy


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