Cam Software

[quickcut]

Good day all, Has anyone tried this cam sofware from www.mr-soft.net Looks like a very good price as well as functionality appears to be good.

 

[sd624]

Hard to beat the price of Fusion 360.......Free

 

[quickcut]

Agreed, but I do not always have the net, and is fusion 360 cloud based?

 

[TomS]

Keep in mind that lowest price is not always the best price. I too went the low cost route with my first CAM program. While it did allow me to get into CNC at a lower initial cost in the long run it cost me more. As my CNC knowledge grew my low cost CAM software lacked many of the features I wanted/needed. Trying to machine a finished product resulted in trying "work-arounds" that led me down a path of frustration, wasted time and trashed tooling. Case in point: look at my thread http://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/mach-3-work-offset.47017/.

Hope this helps you make your decision.

Tom S.

 

[JimDawson]

Agreed, but I do not always have the net, and is fusion 360 cloud based?

Fusion360 will work offline. You just have to log in once every couple of weeks or so.

 

[RJSakowski]

Fusion 360 is cloud based but you can store copies of your work locally.

 

[Tony Wells]

I have MasterCam, although not a single NC/CNC machine in the house.

Maybe someday.