Re: Survey: CAD Posts.


"jon_banquer" <jon_banquer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was just trying to get a good thread on mid grade vs high end cam
systems.
I failed.


IMO, you failed for several reasons:

1. Bill and Fred Motz are the only current users of UG NX that I know
of that post to this newsgroup.

2. Fred Motz comes and goes and is never willing to put the time into
explaining what separates UG NX CAM from say Mastercam. He's rather
whine about the state of this newsgroup and then disappear.

3. Bill just started a new job. Explaining how UG NX CAM's Operation
Manager is really different from Mastercam X2 Operation Manager in
detail requires a lot of time to type out. I've got to believe the UG
NX CAM Operation Manager is radically better than the approach
MasterCAM X2 users with it's awkward and unwieldy approach using a
huge dialog box for it's View Manager and it's Common Parameters
Dialog box.

Well, the GUI sux. It's big...fat..and ugly.
But it can be tweaked into submission.


From what I could make out from what Bill posted it
appears that UG NX CAM Operations Manager has the ability to show
different views and include the WCS's in the tree. As I'm sure you
know MasterCAM X2 can't do this.


Ya sure?
Im not sure what you mean, but like having ops sub listed under g54, g55
etc..."different views" of what?
In the op list?
If so....

You can sort the operations list with a simple right click.
sort by tools, by "view" wich can be extremely useful when sorting ops from
mill/lathes mixed, etc... And work offset also of course.
You can sort by machine definition file, or even op type There's even one
for creation order.
You can sort just the ops you selected, or all.
Is that what you meant? Being able to sort to each coordinate system?



4. I don't have the time right now to get back to UGS (Soon to be
Siemens PLM Software) who I contacted a few weeks ago .... and figure
out how UG NX CAM Express differs. If you have the time I'll forward
you my contact at UGS and a price quote. They would like to make me a
VAR but I don't have the interest or the time.

5. Most posters to this newsgroup have no clue where Gibbs, Mastercam,
etc. fall apart.

Around the 5,000$ mile marker.


Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2007/07/spend-a-littleo.html#comment-76366100




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