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Carl Anderson

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  1. Melin Tool should have what you're looking for.
  2. I am looking for a 2d drawing of a wild boar if anyone can point me to one. Something like the Arkansas Razorback logo would be really cool. Thanks, Carl
  3. I have used Pro-Mfg for the past 8 years and am currently using WF2. Support, education, posts, and learning curve TOTALLY SUCK. If you are doing the simple stuff like milling pockets and poking holes MC will shred Pro-Mfg every time. 99% of our work is native Pro-e complex 3d parts that will eventually be molded. Creating milling geometry, toolpaths, and the excessive mouse clicking can be a PIA, but the processing speed is hard to beat. I have re-programmed several jobs with MCX (default settings) just for comparison sake and and found the processing speed considerably slower. I'm sure there's room to tweak and speed up the processing with MCX, but for now I'll just have to use Pro-Mfg for the gnarly stuff.
  4. I was first introduced to Pro-Mfg with ver 10 and have been using it steadily since ver 18. Very steep learning curve compared to MC, especially since wildfire was released. PTC says you're proficient when you have 10k hours experience.
  5. +1 for the Tulon PCB drills. These drills are stronger than you might think and can take .0005-.001 chip load with a .002-.005 peck in alum.
  6. I used MC for 8 yrs mostly self taught as well as a handful of "lesser CAM's". I have been using Pro-EMfg exclusively for the past 7 yrs and still find it cumbersome. The associativity is fantastic (native pro-e files) for R&D where we constantly do iterations of the same part and the 3D works great. We have engineers that also use Solidworks and when we inport their files into Pro-e we get a dumb solid and all the associativity is gone. Another problem is when we do simple 2D parts...it does the hard stuff easily and the simple stuff hardly. I've see Pro-EMfg work really well in large organizations like aerospace and automotive. The recent updates to Wildfire mostly apply to the design module with only SOME of the changes making it to Mfg. As far as posts go, stay away from ICAM. The guys (Fred & Don) at Austin NC (Intercim) are top notch and fully capable of any G-post needs. We recencly bought 3 seats of MCX and what a treat it is to use software that's actually designed for machining and not an afterthought created by a greedy PTC marketing team.

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