New improvements are coming for this area.
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The software does pick a default tool, this is done for feature recognition and will be useful in the future, for now in the V24 you should always use your tool database. Also for many of the tool paths you can use inside and outside boundaries to control cutting areas. You do have boundary control on surface machining, and you can use surfaces or solids as "check surfaces " which will block the tool path from going in areas you don't want.
I do agree this area could use some improvements, but we do have the common snaps that designers use. When selecting you can use your shift click to show the available snap points on the geometry you are working with. We snap to end middle of a line arc center, 0,45,90. Our default tolerance is very accurate and much higher then most CAM systems defaults.īobCAD does offer snaps just not as many as auotcad. Depending on the type of work you are doing you can speed up your tool path processing times by reducing the tool path tolerance. This is something we are working on but it does take time to restructure the software. I do applaud the newly styled interface, because v23 still felt very 1990's. $300) I can build a computer with more resources than BobCAD can use. I'll just continue to use the 64-bit thing as an example, because for less than the cost of this software (e.g. I'm not sure how CAM companies are addressing this, but a lot of the software out there looks, feels, and acts very archaically. In industry this may have been more acceptable, but as CNC increasingly reaches the hands of hobbyists and consumers, it's entering a technological arena where the bar is raised. My opinion is that the CNC industry has large areas that haven't really kept up as technology advanced. I share these opinions with anyone looking to get CAM software, and several have bought BobCAD on my recommendation. In any case, dealing with the software is generally preferable to dealing with most of the people at BobCAD. I don't mean that to sound harsh, though it is a rather blunt opinion. I consider it the "lesser of evils" of available options, and not really a shining example of superior anything. Overall, as I said at the beginning of my post, it works "well", 6-7 stars out of 10. (My workstation is used for 3D rendering, and has two 6-core processors and 32GB of RAM.) They claimed these were not limitations of their software, and would not own the problem (which leads to no solution to the problem either). For example, when I confronted support about the memory allocation problems (see 64-bit, above), they kept trying to tell me that my machine could not provide BobCAD the resources it needs. BobCAD salesmen are RIDICULOUSLY pushy. Many of these contribute not only to a lack of user friendliness, but also to needless repetition that leads to human error. I probably have to work around a new one of these little problems daily. STL files, almost none of BobCAD's functions work on them (e.g. + While it can technically open and generate toolpaths for mesh-based. stepover, tool to use, depth per pass, etc.). + You are not able to specify defaults for almost anything, so if you are going to make 20 different toolpaths of the same type you have to manually enter every setting every time (e.g.
+ Every time you create a new toolpath it defaults to the same pointless 1/2in "system tool" which it insists on adding to your tool DB, even if you remove it. if you wanted to machine a donut shape without touching the donut hole) + It lacks the ability to create a toolpath in the region between two nested shapes (e.g. Software is a bit "clunky", and lacks little features that you would use constantly, if it had them. I run BobCAD out of memory daily (32-bit processes can only access 2GB of RAM). This means that many toolpaths you want to generate when doing 3D cuts simply will not complete.
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Software is not 64-bit, and toolpath generation routines are very memory inefficient (especially Pro toolpaths). Variety of toolpaths, and more in Pro (I had Std, and now have Pro.). It feels more 2005 than most competitors (which scream 1995).
New v24 interface has a nice "modern" feel. It performs better than cheaper $150-ish software, though not nearly as well as true $3000-class software, without naming any names. It can be purchased at a very reasonable price for hobbyists (a couple hundred dollars), which makes it a very good bang for the buck. I use BobCAD v24, and am happy to share my feedback.
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