Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] mastercam software

Marcus, you should be clear and say that Mastercam HAS a pretty good CAD
system built in... (It is primarily CAM)

One shop we deal with also uses it to read our Solidworks files - 3D
models - does that require an add-on?

Anyway, there is still the price issue, as has been well covered.
Mastercam is possibly the king of the block.

Agree about Autocad, though Inventor is supposed to be quite excellent.
It is by Autodesk, but far removed from Autocad, and it is a complete
modeling package.
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Marcus wrote:

>Hi Sven:
> Mastercam is actually a pretty good CAD system; certainly much better
>than Autocad.
>It has a solid modeller, a far more user friendly interface (although many
>still curse it) and fairly powerful surfacing capability.
>It does better Coons patches than any other CAD software I've used, and can
>create Nurbs blends quite well too.
>Autocad is a horror to use unless you were trained on it first: then
>everything else seems hard to use.
>Cheers
>
>Marcus
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