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Rhino 8 users?

David said:
MeshCAM was very underwhelming to say the least.
But Alibre is working on a partnership with EZ-CAM so I'm waiting on those details.
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Thanks for the heads up. I just did a quick check their websites, and getting contradictory info at a quick glance. From the easycam side it looks like it's just paired with atom, which I'm not too interested in. I'll check a bit deeper later tonight, maybe download the demo and play around with it. At first glance, it's not too bad. Which version of ezcam do you have?
 
Dan Dubeau said:
Thanks for the heads up. I just did a quick check their websites, and getting contradictory info at a quick glance. From the easycam side it looks like it's just paired with atom, which I'm not too interested in. I'll check a bit deeper later tonight, maybe download the demo and play around with it. At first glance, it's not too bad. Which version of ezcam do you have?
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I'm playing with the full version of EZ-Mill. I think they are promoting Alibre Atom because it's easy to package as a download with EX-CAM.
This a a screen cap from my chat with Chris from EZ-CAM.
I contacted them because the EZ-Mill Xpress screens are a bit different from the full EZ-Mill; workstep in Xpress vs. Automation in the full version.
Like I said in my EZ-CAM post, Chris made a video of him setting up my part so I could see the workflow.
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I installed the 14 day demo. Not impressed. It didn't like that I already had a Rev 27 of Alibre Atom installed. So that part of the install didn't work.

I was able to import the part shown previously in this thread. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to set up the G-Code to make the hole as a pocket. I could select a tool. But after that it looked like it had lots of drawing features and other CAD stuff mixed in with possible CAM stuff. Not impressed. Used Add/Remove programs to clean up the disk space it was using.
All gone.
 
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