I cannot speak highly of the support we have had from SolidCAM UK, they are quick to respond, knowledgable and have good links with the developers in Israel.Īs for stability, SolidCAM itself is reasonably stable but I have had issues with using SolidCAM over a network but these are mor to d with SolidWorks timing out because the network speed is slow We hold our license key, tool libraries and other key files in a common network location - if you are working on a standalone workstation with local storage things are much more reliable and faster. I have come across the post-processors needing to be updated when a new release is produced but it is mainly on the Mill-Turn side of things and I haven't been inconvenienced directly. Many, many CAM systems use modules developed by other people.
Nice if they had a better verification software provided, maybe this is the external module the HSM works guy was talking about, not sure what other people use but I still use the standard one that comes with Solidcam 3.
Price is high, but aren't they all, and its virtually one off 2.
It does work pratically flawlessly with Solidworks, so if I was to say anything bad about Solidcam, it would be: 1. POSTPROCESSOR BUILDING - "Create a 5-Axis postprocessor" You have to buy modules according to what you need, I didn't even know everything by Solidcam was developed externally, but this doesn't affect me the slightest, its still a good software.īut then again, this is relative to the parts we produce. Every CAM system will do posts and then need customising, I use to have Edgecam, and I didn't like that software at all, even with creating posts, personal opinion. When the guys says bugs, its nonsense, everything will have bugs, but I have not found one. Probably in the past, never had issues with Solidcam from onwards, you get the odd shutdowns, like any software where it crashes, but unlike microsoft software, I would say this has happened only about 2 or 3 times to me in the year. At the time of choosing it looked a very good CAM package. Think You Know Which CAM Packages Are Most Popular? Time to Find Out!