It's membership reads like a who's who of the CADCAM business. As of today it has almost 2,000 members and is very active. Here are the group rules I've established for CADCAM Technology Leaders group on LinkedIn: You won't find any CADCAM discussion group like it anywhere. This group is offered as an alternative to paid advertising based CADCAM discussion forums where the advertiser is always favored over users when push comes to shove. For years I experienced censorship and banning on paid advertising CADCAM forums, official CADCAM company run forums and on CADCAM fanboi blogs. The censorship and banned occurred when I called CADCAM companies and their fanboi's out on specific issues. That's not going to happen in this group to outspoken, knowledgeable, CADCAM users who posts facts. ever.Ĭomments should explain in sufficient detail why the technology you are discussing is a leading edge technology.

Comments like 'xyz CADCAM is the best!!!' or 'abc CADCAM sucks!!!' will be deleted. Here is an example of what I consider to be an acceptable, hard hitting comparison: Hard hitting, fact based, comparisons between different CADCAM products are acceptable and encouraged. Xyz CADCAM has direct modeling tools that allow me to work quickly and easily on non-native solids. Update 4-23-2014: Is Mastercam A Well Developed Program That's Checked Properly Before Each New Release?Īre bugs promptly fixed on newly developed features with free service packs? No personal attacks of any kind will be permitted on CADCAM Technology Leaders group on LinkedIn I find xyz direct modeling tools to be much better because our shop mostly works with non-native solids.' abc CADCAM has no real direct modeling tools because abc CADCAM only has a Replace Face tool for direct modeling and that adds a feature to the history tree. Think there is good reason so many accounts have been dropping and continue to drop maintenance for Mastercam? Should users of Mastercam have to pay for new features that when released are bug filled, badly incomplete, very poorly thought out, unstable and won't be fixed until the next point release at best and more likely many point releases in the future? Mastercam x9 manual update#

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