Does anyone have experience with this software and is it worth it?
You will find a few threads on this if you search the forum for “GWizard”.
My personal opinion (after buying it too early in my CNC journey, and getting massively confused) is that it is somewhat steered towards users of heavier machines, and those who already have a good grasp of feeds and speeds. It has its place, but is it a magical tool that will provide optimal feeds and speeds for any situation without having to know how feed and speeds work ? I don’t think so (because such a tool does not exist, there are just too many parameters and machine types out there).
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If you are using Carbide Motion, I have done the following.
Start out with the software recommendations and make minor tweaks until you are happy with results.
I have experience and like @Julien says, it’s geared towards heavier machines.
More specifically, its recommendations are set up for machines where the spindle is the limiting factor. On Carbide 3D machines, the limiting factor is usually rigidity, which CNCCookbook doesn’t account for.
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Seconded,
Once I learned enough about feeds and speeds and stuff to have an idea what I didn’t know (from the likes of @gmack and @Julien ) I bought Millalyzer and found that to be a useful tool to understand the difference in cutting forces for different types of cut, spindle speeds, numbers of flutes etc.
None of the programs I’ve seen can replace the human in the loop making sensible decisions though.
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Check out FSWizard Pro App, been having good luck on the Nomad 3.
Thanks everyone for their input. I think I will request to get off the email list and just stick with the Carbide recommendations until I am more familiar with my machine,
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