Hello,
I was just curious what everyone was using for their CAM to use the 4th axis? I’ve been looking at just paying for the manufacturing extension as I need it but didn’t know if there was a cheaper/better option out there.
Thanks!
I use the 2d pocket for my A rotary stuff but it’s simple. If you want to chamfer a 2D rotary pocket you have to start bringing out all the tricks.
Not cheap but Ency / Sprutcam is a decent cam program.
I would expect Fusion to be the about the same or better at many things just because of the huge install base.
Unless you need true simultaneous 4 axis toolpaths, there’s no need for the manufacturing extension. Fusion will do 3+1 already and most of the 2D toolpaths also support toolpath wrapping. Honestly, I’ve played with the extension a few times, even paying for a pile of tokens so I can spend some real time with it, and it hasn’t been substantially better than what’s already available in the basic license. Granted, I’ve had no formal training so it’s entirely possible that I just don’t know what I’m doing, but so far, I’ve not seen any benefit to the additional toolpaths that the extension gives you.
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I was going to mention that above about Sprutcam-Ency
90% of what I do is indexed or 3+1 and I even try to avoid true rotary tool path functions if I can.
Fusion without the add-on for most things 4th-axis on the 1100.