I have a friend that has tried to learn Mastercam, he programs robotic limbs for a day job and is fluent with CAD and several different programming languages but still found it an absolute mission. I have another friend who is a machinist with his own shop who spent months learning to program basic parts for his CNC mill on the $3,000 CAM package that is integrated into it.
I can completely understand this. I’m digging into the really complex levels of BobCAD-CAM and even with experience I’m finding it a bit challenging. I teach machining and CNC and I call this “CAD think” and “CAM think”. It takes a lot of pain to master a CAD and/or CAM package and learning another - or master a totally new part of it - is quite a challenge.
I am good at CAD (Solidworks) too but as Randy and mbellon can probably attest I have sub-par intelligence and a very poor sense of humor
… you sense of humor is fine. We just keep it in mind that the blood is constantly rushing to your head.
but I made this little box My first real project 100% made on the Nomad - what do you think? - #10 by MrHume as a first project on Meshcam and the Meshcam part of it probably only took a couple of hours to get my head around.
I remember that! Nicely done!
There was a couple questions I asked/researched on this forum and a little bit of trial and error and generating simulations of the g-code it produced but for the most part I think it’s pretty user friendly compared to other options.
The forums are here to make things easier. C3D is working at improving things constantly - something that they have wired into themselves - and with our feedback things will become mature, stable, capable and easy(ish) to use.
I really hope you don’t give up, as has been said already CNC is not 3D printing, it’s a bit more tricky, but you get real usable parts and it’s more rewarding.
I messaged @Tshulthise and I’ll help him out.
Good luck and keep on the forum, it’s really helpful.
Yup.
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