Just How Bad Does Mastercam Suck At Drilling?
Joe788
lots of dough just to do drilling!
See:
http://www.moldplus.com/prodrill.htm
Comments on Mastercam's FBM Drill as posted to the dying e-Mastercam
forum run by Outhouse Solutions:
"The Chipmaker
Does anyone know how to sort which way the holes get drilled in FBD?
It seems like it sorts them by hole depth. Is there away to get them
into one operation like solid drilling did? If I have 100 different
hole depths I end up with 100 operations in the operations manager.
Thanks in advance. [Band Head Against Wall] "
"Doug Nemeth, CNC Software
Currently, there is no way to combine ops that share the same diameter
but have different depths. But we understand the benefits of doing
this and we're looking into it now."
"Stephen Saults from Valk Industries
Not having the ability to combine ops that have the same diameter and
different depths is one of the reasons we are not using FBM Drill and
still use solid drill. For simple hole drilling with holes at several
different depths solid drill works great."
"Doug Nemeth, CNC Software
The main reason being not having full control over the sorting,
correct?"
"Stephen Saults from Valk Industries
The sorting and the amount of operations that is created. We do vacuum
form tooling that has up to 1500 holes that are the same size at many
different depths.
Also Pro-E creates tapped holes with the tap drill hole size. FBM
Drill will not let me select a tap for that hole or a rollform tap
drill to use with a rollform tap"
Joe788
How many users does Mastercam have, Jon? How many complaints have you
found?
Joe788
Cliff
> the dying e-Mastercam
>forum run by Outhouse Solutions:
http://www.mastercamforum.com looks pretty dead.
What did yo do to it?
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Cliff