Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Which one?

From: Joe Vicars <jvicars@...>

> Solid Works plus SmartCAM would be a pretty decent combination for the

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> shop. Although I think Smart CAM is out of buisiness.

Nah, they just stopped further development and support of it.
This was when I was last involved with it.
They stopped it's support with version 11.
I *loved* SmartCAM.

Now, why do you say SolidWorks *plus* SmartCAM?
Both can each do the same work, albeit different ways.
I'm not being flippant, just curious.
If I were to take the time to model it in SolidWorks,
why would I import a file into SmartCAM for the code generation?
Why not just use the native stuff in the SolidWorks package?
Or, for that matter, why not just model it in SmartCAM
and generate tool path natively there?

Is there a fault in either that behooves me to use both?

Thanks,

Weyland