Mastercam 2022 also gets your OptiRough for Mill license so that's a big plus.īecause Mastercam has way more control over toolpath motion than Fusion, hence the car comparison. They have a terrible wait list most of the time for general support, and their post support is basically non-existent. Also, try getting post support or general support from Fusion. It saves you money and gets you better support. Getting fusion for industrial purposes it a lot like buying a cable service, it doesn't really do everything that it's hyped up to do, and you get charged way more down the line than you expected.īest way to handle Mastercam is to stay up to date, keep up on maintenance. It also creates toolpaths that don't take tool pressure into account, thus wearing out your tools faster. Like someone else said, it's not ITAR compliant, and you don't really own any intellectual property due to their licensing agreements. Mastercam is the leader in CAM for industry for a reason: it has the best toolpaths period.įrom what I hear, fusion can be easier to learn, but it's drawbacks are serious. If you're back on x9, Mastercam 2021 (and 2022 coming this next week ish) has a lot in store. So this is not a completely bullshit scenario, I actually lived through it and do not want to repeat it.Īlso, fuck you for assuming me a pirate and a parasite without knowing anything about me. The platform was proprietary, we had literally no control over it, without their maintenance it could fail at any time). Our company almost failed because of that, we barely managed to switch platforms before they doubled the maintenance costs again (they were asking 40.000 euro/month. Of course everyone of their customers was scrambling to switch to VoIP but they had their own plans and timelines. Then they started to double the maintenance costs every year. The manufacturer decided to sell the company and the new owners fired all the developers and just kept a skeleton crew for maintenance. They were paying around 10.000 euro/month just in maintenance costs. They had a proprietary TDM platform worth millions of Euros. I used to work for a top telecommunications company in Germany.
There are some minor things disabled in the free version like multiaxis support, multiple toolpaths in one post, and rapid jog movements but nothing that would keep you from practicing and demonstrating how it could be used once you're confident that Fusion is better and faster, you'll have a good shot at convincing him, because it is very cheap. If you're trying to convince him (and yourself) that Fusion is the best choice, snag a free license and toolpath your current work in Fusion to learn the workflow. it's also not an interesting proposal unless you can prove that not only will switching to Fusion save time in the long run, but won't result in downtime or mistakes in the short term. To shop owners, a change isn't attractive if they're used to hiring people that have Mastercam experience. To the learner, it's undeniable that Mastercam is often better to learn since it's an industry standard. I've only used Fusion but have heard regularly from Mastercam users that Fusion is better pretty much across the board for most 3-4 axis work. Piracy of any kind is not permitted and may cause a permanent ban Other subreddits you may be interested in: Meme posts that are not funny may result in a permanent ban and possible curse to post author. Memes are not permitted, unless they are CNC related AND funny. Please use the stickied sales and services megathread. Sales and or services posts are not permitted. Final decision is made by the community by way of reporting. Other considerations that may cause the removal of the post including lack of engagement with the community or the author has a history of self promotion. Posts that do not meet this criteria will be removed without question. Posts of self promotion MUST include original content directly from the post author and have been created with reasonable effort. Name calling or belittling will not be tolerated and may result in a permanent ban. Please be respectful of others when posting. If it appears the author has done little or no research it may be removed for low effort. Posters are also expected to have done some basic research on their own. Post authors are required to stay engaged with the community. Any posts without this information may be removed and only restored when the information is supplemented. You must include as much useful information as possible when asking for help or advice. Examples of this include unsafe instructions and unsafe modes of machine operation. No posts or comments that encourages unsafe acts.