


Mastercam MAY allow you more control if you spend the time to fully learn how to use it but I was not ready to drop $15000 to see if it was more powerful.

I had a couple of online meetings where I was shown how to use the software on my parts and used the posts to produce parts before I committed to buying the software. HSMworks gave me a free month trial and wrote a post for me. They would throw the training in for "free" if I bought the software for around $15 000. There was no demo version available "you need the training that we provide". Our software offers a complete solution, from design to. Mastercam provides CAD/CAM software tools to meet all your CNC programming needs. The only way he knew how to contain toolpaths was to draw a bunch of containment zones, he struggled with toolpathing the model. Mastercam CAD/CAM software can be used to convert computer-aided design (CAD), to manufacturing workpieces using computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) on your CNC machine. I had a model of a pattern I had just made when the Mastercam salesman came in. One big deciding factor for me was I did want something fast to learn and that I could program my parts fast without a lot of drawing containment zones. He quoted me about double what HSMworks ended up costing me, even with all the "discounts" on Mastercam. I had a salesman from the local Mastercam reseller come in.
