Answer for Gibbs and Pro E
Posted by
onecooltoolfool
on 2002-04-08 14:43:12 UTC
We tried to contact Gibbs for an educational package, they never
returned our calls.
It was a showdown between Master CAM and Edge CAM, we went with
EdgeCAM because they offered more seats, better support and a very
user friendly custom post processor editor. Since I am building lots
of different custom machines I was very interested in this post
processor feature.
In my view all of the high end CAM are pretty much equal.
Kind of splitting hairs when you get into the really high performance
machining, and we don't do high productivity machining.
As to the guy asking about Pro E for mechanical engineering, I hate
to dissapoint you my friend but if you want a good job as an ME you
better go get your MBA and forget about Pro E. Most all mechanical
design is handled by contract designers which are younger guys (many
not even in this country) with a 2 year tech "drafting" degree or
less. There is a huge difference between design and using CAD. CAD
work is a commodity, you can buy it anywhere.
If you want to do actual design work you will have to go to work for
a very small start-up or work for yourself. I will save you the
dissapointment of thinking you are going to "build stuff" with an ME
degree. Been there.
Don't get me wrong it's worth getting, but you will have to "make
stuff" at home.
Hence, this list.
Joe V. (BSME)
returned our calls.
It was a showdown between Master CAM and Edge CAM, we went with
EdgeCAM because they offered more seats, better support and a very
user friendly custom post processor editor. Since I am building lots
of different custom machines I was very interested in this post
processor feature.
In my view all of the high end CAM are pretty much equal.
Kind of splitting hairs when you get into the really high performance
machining, and we don't do high productivity machining.
As to the guy asking about Pro E for mechanical engineering, I hate
to dissapoint you my friend but if you want a good job as an ME you
better go get your MBA and forget about Pro E. Most all mechanical
design is handled by contract designers which are younger guys (many
not even in this country) with a 2 year tech "drafting" degree or
less. There is a huge difference between design and using CAD. CAD
work is a commodity, you can buy it anywhere.
If you want to do actual design work you will have to go to work for
a very small start-up or work for yourself. I will save you the
dissapointment of thinking you are going to "build stuff" with an ME
degree. Been there.
Don't get me wrong it's worth getting, but you will have to "make
stuff" at home.
Hence, this list.
Joe V. (BSME)