Hypermill review software#
Hypermill review code#

Should we be looking at other software too? Moving back to the topic I started: Hypermill is breathtakingly expensive but makes a strong claim to being an industry leader for sophisticated 5 axis milling. So I still run my age old version of MasterScam (8.1) sneakily on the side for those jobs, and I get the damned jobs out and paid for.no pissin' around!

Hypermill review code#

If you need to control the code explicitly however either to improve the efficiency of an operation or to run a particular strategy that you have a particular reason for choosing, it will make you weep with frustration if you are under any time pressure at all. It probably won't break the cutter, and it'll nibble out what you intended to make, but it'll take a mountain of code and dance all over Hell's Half Acre to do so. If you like software that does what it wants reasonably well, most of the time, it'll be a good fit for you just accept the defaults and go. Second, the toolpaths are uncontrollable you will damned well do what the software wants not what you want.ДЇor example if you say'Start Here' using the explicit 'Start Here' command, it will as often as not do what it wants anyway, and I've witnessed hours of farting about trying to get it to drop a cutter into a predrilled hole for example, or start a parallel toolpath where you told it to. The workarounds demand vast experience to have even a prayer of making them work, and they gobble time like a wolf gobbles rabbits. I've seen a half hour job turn into a ten hour boondoggle repeatedly, and Keith is an expert user so I've got lots of help. There are two things that are not to my taste with HSMWorks:ДЇirst, it demands a perfect Solidworks model if there's even a tiny flaw it sometimes turns a simple programming task into a nightmare in a way I've never experienced before. I understand much of what you're saying: I have been frustrated in the same way as you about the HSMWorks workflow I find it highly counter intuitive and not very versatile. Sorry for the hijack, if you don't like Mastercam hopefully you find something that works for your shop, I do know Mastercam is damn expensive so that is a definite negative. And yes I get I am still learning it and I expect to have some hiccups along the way, but damn it is like it just does not work.

) but I can't get anything to work in inventor.

The part in question I could conceivably program with almost any toolpath in Mastercam (yes, I know, I'm a fanboy. Been working with Autodesk trying to get a relatively simple part programmed, and they have been no help so far. It feels like I just randomly click buttons to get the shit to work. Some (very little IMO) is very intuitive and much better than Mastercam, but most of it just seems so foreign to me. The best I can come up is that we (programmers) learn one system so well we don't even see the 'bugs' anymore.? I am trying to learn HSM inside inventor 2016 and I am baffled. I just don't understand this ^ mentality. Is it pretty good to learn or will I lose my last few hairs over this?Дon't know anything about hypermill, sorry to hijack here. Is it vast overkill for 3 axis programming? So now that Hypermill is in the picture and I'm facing another new learning curve how user friendly is it for bog-standard 3 axis programming of our other mills? When we first joined forces in 2014 he expressed a violent fundamental ideological allergy to the Mastercrap I'd been using, so we became an HSMWorks shop, and we agreed we'd be a one platform shop for milling. Keith is starting to make amorous noises about ponying up for a seat of Hypermill for the 5 axis mill.