In general, I think the program does great simulations, but I don't like the automatic feature recognition they brag so much about. I will be using it to make parts on a 2'x3' Avid Benchtop Pro with NEMA 34 motors and a 24k RPM spindle. I am not a machinist, so plenty of user error, but it should give an idea of how hard it is to learn this CAM stuff. This is the basic free package you get with SolidWorks 2018 and later. I am evaluating several CAM packages and the first is SolidWorks CAM by CAMWorks. But I can’t figure out things like tabs without having to make a bunch of sketches and additional operations.Howdy gang. What I can see being really useful from CAMWorks is the ability to save a ton of different machining strategies, and how much more control you get over your toolpaths. While I do some significant advantages to CAMWorks/Solidworks CAM over Fusion 360 CAM, there are a couple of things I need to figure out before I can say that it’s distinctly better. Porbably have to play with the Post generator a little bit when I have time, or wait until CAMWorks support gets back to me.

Or manually add the G20/G21 at the beginning to specify units. It looks like it should run, although I would do so with caution, making sure my units are set right and everything. There’s a G90 near the beginning, at least, but I didn’t see a G21 to tell the Maslow that we should be working in mm. The one thing that stands out to me is that there is no safe startup block at the beginning of the program. My machine isn’t presently set up, so the only testing I could do would be to have it sit there and spin the motors xD I put together a quick program to test out what the generic GRBL post does from CAMWorks. I set up a quick Maslow CNC machine in CAMWorks with the basic settings.

I downloaded the post files and the Unversal Post Generator. Nice! I haven’t yet heard back from CAMWorks support, but that might just be what we’d need to get it going.

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