Sounds like you have more research to do both in software demos, employee feedback, extra costs, etc. Stating that Mastercam is more complicated, or not updated, or that it is the only one using a post language to derive s all just sour grapes. There are lots of high end packages out there and reasons why you may pick one over the other. The rest of us want to ability to control the toolpath. You can leave all the settings to Default or Automatic, ya thats nice and easy but you are then at the mercy of the software making decisions for you. There's no getting around the fact there's just more going on in the toolpath so you should want the ability to have control over those things, which means more inputs and options.
Doesn't matter how you want to slice that up. Its not all MW paths in Mastercam (another common misinformation salesman will not clarify) Oh, and Mastercam has their own toolpaths as well as MW toolpaths. Also, keep in mind, this is another salesman tactic, not all cam companies that use Moduleworks toolpaths give access to all the available MW toolpaths. The moduleworks toolpaths are some of the best out there. 'Moduleworks = bad' 'Mastercam = complicated' 'our software = best' Sound like you are regurgitating a lot of the buzz words the salesman spewed at you. Should I just work harder on getting good at Mastercam Multiaxis? Is the learning curve for HyperMILL huge? I can make good toolpaths and create good parts though, both 3+2 and simultaneous. Is that possible with HyperMILL? I feel pretty good about using Mastercam Multiaxis, but I am not a Mastercam wizard or anything like that. What I would love is for a software to intuitively create good toolpaths without having to sit there for ages just to get the collision control strategies just right. If the jump from Mastercam to HyperMILL isn't going to deliver that much process improvement then it obviously isn't worth it. My understanding is that HyperMILL is using proprietary software that basically blows away the competition when it comes to 5-axis applications. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, I just find that it takes damn near forever to get it to do what I want as a user. My main problem is that Mastercam is extremely complex when it comes to 5-axis. For the sake of this argument I am not considering other options that utilize the same ModuleWorks 5-axis toolpath engines. It went well, and I would really like to see what others think of HyperMILL and how it relates to other popular software solutions like Mastercam. I had a long meeting with a HyperMILL salesperson today.
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