We've been through a couple cam softwares, and MC is by far my favorite. I stated out learning CAM in collage and that was back when X1 just came out. We had a few seats of Mastercam9 and X1 so I got to learn both. I never used them in a professional environment since the company I worked for used FeatureCam.
So I spent 12 years using FeatureCam self taught and having every guy that waked in the door say things like "You guys don't have MasterCam? My old FeatureCam was more capable and less buggy than the all mighty and more expensive Mastercam.
My Mastercam is buggy, crashes, and sometimes can't drive a tool path around part geometry correctly. In FC I could spot, drill, and tap a hole in one operation. MC I have to create a operation for each thing I do witch equals many more mouse clicks. MC is not stock aware on all milling operations unlike FC.
MC is happy cutting air all day unless you use a more complex tool path. In FC all tool paths are Stock aware and it wont cut where there is no material automatically. Even the guys in the MC forums complain about that. I have been using it for 3 years now and we upgraded to X8.
Same shit different version. I believe some of my bug issues and crashes come from not having enough horse power in my PC, but that leads me to my lack of customer support. No one will tell me the machine requirements to run MC inside of solid works. Mastercam says to use the Solidworks requirements Witch I exceed and solidworks tells me to contact Mastercam for the requirements.
Due to having a lot of issues we cancelled our mastercam maintenance after X8. Our software provider was not very helpful on solving our problems and we very very slow and solving the problems they could. So no need to pay them for nothing.
After cancelling they did send us both versions of X9 stand alone and the SW addin but I have yet to install or try them. I assume most of my problems were because its running inside of solidworks so when I get time I want to try the stand alone X9 and see how it does. But until mastercam steps up the game they are NOT the best, realistic programmers on the Mastercam forums will tell you that. But you will have the MC cheer squad always telling you its the best and most of them have never truly used anything else.
The problem with CAM is its expensive and takes a lot of hours to truly learn. So not many people have the experience with multiple softwares and can't give a good comparison. People also seem to be more fond of the 1st software they learned so anything after that just isn't as good.
Now that I dragged Mastercam through the mud I will spray it off with the hose. I still used X8 and will continue to do so till I have time to upgrade my PC.
Once I do that I will consider my options and most likely upgrade to the newest version of MC for 3 reasons. I already know it 2. I can easily hire someone that knows it. I pray and hope that they get there heads out of their ass and start adding more features to future versions.
But if I was not ever going to hire someone I would defiantly be looking at other options. I'm not saying buy FeatureCam and I'm not saying don't buy Mastercam. See our privacy policy.
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