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To answer your question about WNC one annoyance I find is that if you chose to machine an area by selecting the surfaces the cutter doesn't always go right to the very edge of the surface, I'd like it to use the edges as a boundary curve and have options of being able to get the cutter to overlap these boundaries by a set amount. I'm old enough though to know that things are a lot better than the old days, in a previous life I used to use a big Cincinnati Hydrotel as well as various pantographs and I don't miss them a bit. I get far more satisfaction from being in the workshop making stuff.
#POWERMILL VS HYPERMILL PC#
I don't like sitting in front of a PC for hours on end so I tend to look at CAD/CAM as a necesary evil. What I least like about WNC is more to do with modern machining in general. Good support: Very good here, but that's not to say it is where you are, it all comes down to the people you have to talk to and their attitude.
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You can open the post file in a text editor like notepad and edit yourself, so should not be a problem. Good post processor editor: Another good point, over the years we have tweaked and modified our posts ourselves, all with technical guidance from WNC support. Perhaps the best feedback is from mould polishers (who get to see a wide variety of tool work) making favourable comments on the quality of our machined surface finishes. see through polished surfaces but also with specific optical properties like focal points, mapped surfaces, lightguides, LED diffuser/lenses and have all been good. Good with high tolerance surfaces: WNC is excellent for this sort of work, over the years we have made plenty of parts that have had to have not only optical surfaces i.e. Speed (64 bit multicore support): See previous post Like most mould toolmakers I machine a wide variety of materials with soft materials like copper/graphite through to fully hardened tool steels, once you've built up your libraries you can use them over & over again.
#POWERMILL VS HYPERMILL CODE#
Any issues have been either machine or operator based problems, not software.Įase of automation of code creation: WNC allows you to set up machining templates that you can easily adapt to whatever you're machining. Great Code: I've used WNC for over tens years and have cut thousands of parts with it including some very complex parts and can honestly say hand on heart I've never ever had any bad code. To answer your specific questions with regard to Work NC:
#POWERMILL VS HYPERMILL SOFTWARE#
Hi Harri, can't help you with the Powermill software as I've no personal experience of it other than to say a company I worked at had it and it worked well for them.