Mastercam for cad

[Tom Szelag]

Personally I design everything in SolidWorks or Inventor, then bring it over to MasterCAM to do toolpaths. Then again since I'm working on a degree in mechanical engineering I learned parametric feature-based modelling in those software suites before ever getting the chance to machine and use MasterCAM.

 

The senior machinist I work with though designs absolutely everything in MasterCAM.

 

To each their own, its a preference thing I suppose.

[Richard Bechard]

We just got Mastercam mill 3 with solids and moldplus.I am using it for our design work and I am liking it.I used Cadkey7 in the beginning and

we got Ironcad about a year ago.I like Mastercam much better than Ironcad.I think I will always respect Cadkey for what it could do and the fact it was our first cad program.I would still use Cadkey7 for some stuff if I could get it to run on XP.Cadl programs were cool.