DRAW TOOLPATH IN FEATURE CAM SOFTWARE

I definitely recommend the software to anyone wanting seriously powerful CAM software which will increase your equipment and team's productivity. Thanks to some positive, constructive coaching from team members such as Scott Neill who is a steely eyed missle man and regular check ins with an above and beyond the sale, salesman in Steve Welch, I know that our team has made the right choice in selecting SolidCAM as our go to CAM solution.

All of the support members that I have contacted were either machinists and/or programmers and have a very well established knowledge base. Not only was the staff able to answer my questions or solve my issues every time I contacted them, they did so with a great attitude and an amazing degree of knowledge regarding their product. Let me say that ALL of my interactions with the SolidCAM staff so far have been VERY satisfying. This led to all sorts of potentially momentum killing interface and software questions which then led to emails, phone calls and eventually gotomeeting events with their support team. I tried the piece meal approach at first as I am responsible to program and set up 8 CNC machines which leaves little time to sit and spend any length of time flushing out the interface and getting a project done. The software has been relatively easy to learn once I was able to make a serious effort to take time to sit down and work through an entire project and not do it piece meal as I had been attempting. All in all, couldn't be happier with my experience working with them!

This took a lot of work by the post team as I'm a little picky with how the code comes out, but they've always worked with me in a very time efficient way to get my changes made. They are responsive and knowledgeable, and with their help, we now have a complex part running on a Citizen L20 with no code editing done after it comes out of the post. This function also needed some feedback to get it running, but the support staff at SolidCAM has been excellent in helping me through it.

DRAW TOOLPATH IN FEATURE CAM UPDATE

After the update to SolidCAM 2021, the toolkit function made it much easier (or rather, made it possible), to add in all the weird attachments and tools that you regularly see in Swiss machines. When we first got the post, it definitely needed a bit of work to get it perfect. We're doing a big push to get all of our Swiss machines using direct CAM output, and the SolidCAM support/post teams have been really helpful in making that happen. I've had SolidCAM for about a year now, but only started heavily using it for our Swiss Lathes a couple months ago.

Draw toolpath in feature cam