HI, just bought out a company in our field that had a Haas TM2P and a TML2, 2 seats of Solidedge and 2 seats of BC v24. Part of the deal was it was suppose dto come with 2 weeks of training on the software and their drawings, setups and toolpaths. I have been hosed on the training so far so me and my dad have been on a crash course over the last month learning the machines, our tooling and the software. Many nights over the last month I have only gotten a couple hours sleep. Machines not making chips is not an option.
I personally had 0 previous experience with cad or cam before this but I know my way around computers and am a fast learner. My dad is very familiar with Vcarvepro but thats a ton different then Solids and BC.
Among my many many issues with Bobcad so far the very top of the list is the crashing. It crashes ALL THE TIME. Try and save and post to thumb drive, crash,post only, crash, verify tool path, crash, get click happy while drawing, crash. The computer its on is plenty robust for it unless its just the video card but solid edge runs on it just fine and very rarely has crashed, maybe 2 times compared to hundreds of times with BC. To prevent posting crashes I have to first save to the hard drive then to the thumbdrive, and never hit post only.
My next thing is it just doesnt seem to flow like my brain wants to think when tool pathing. I know exactly what I want but feel like I am constantly doing some kind of work around to get exactly what I want done, and I am talking just plain 2D tool paths nothing even complicated. Its stuff that my dad can draw and tool path in Vcarve in a fraction of the time. The 3d paths I have tried has been even worse, something as simple as a fillet has about caused me to go jump in front of a train.
So right now I am not sure if I should keep killing myself with BC, maybe go ahead and get the license transferred, upgrade to 27 and see if it gets better or move on to something that maybe fits how I think better? I have a Onecnc trial dongle on the way and want to see how it is, the videos I watched on it seem to fit us better.
I have plenty of issues I need help with but will save those for other threads. If I could get it to stop crashing all the time I would feel alot better about moving forward learning it.
Thanks, Bean