Originally Posted by
Marty Jacobson
I'd also recommend Fusion 360. The CAM package built in to Fusion is the same one we were buying for biomedical research machining 5-6 years ago at $10,000 a seat. ASPIRE & Vectric are like buckets, Rhino/RhinoCAM is a wheelbarrow, and Fusion 360 is like having a Cat excavator.
The difference is that Fusion 360 is parametric. Need a longer scale length? Type in the longer scale length and the neck geometry automatically updates (if properly drawn). If you change the location of a pickup, the G-code automatically updates and the next program you run will reflect that change. It allows for a build process as close to that of a hands-on manual build as you can get with CNC. With Aspire or Rhino, you are going in and deconstructing your model, re-constructing it to the new design, and then re-applying the toolpaths to fit the new geometry.
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