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Re: Best CAM software

Another vote for HSMWorks. Andy A and I use it drive a CNC router, two different mills, and a CNC plasma cutter.

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
It's $600 for a seat of MasterCAM or MasterCAM for Solidworks. If you use the latter you don't miss out on the associativity of HSMWorks. MasterCAM has a change recognition tool in the standalone version that will allow you to update geometry without redoing the entire CAM program, but it can be unwieldy at times.

I wanted to switch to HSMWorks but no tabs is a deal breaker. I'm not gonna waste the time to draw in tabs when I could have the part done already in MasterCAM.
What do you mean by 'tabs'?
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