So I've been wondering whether there exists any good training software I can purchase that will allow me to study the system at home, where I will not have a seat of Esprit installed. Long and short, it's looking like he's going to want to hire me full time, and he REALLY wants to get going programming with Esprit but can't seem to find the time to get acquainted with it.

I guess it's one of those deals where 'Oh, we'll just limp through this one more jobĪnd sit down with the software when we're not so busy.'Īnyway, I've been talking to the owner when we've been in there the last couple Saturdays it seems he's happy with the work I've been turning out on his manual machines, and I've gotten to write and run some simple programs on the CNC mill as well. Kind of a strange situation Cadillac CAM software sitting idle while guys are on the floor hand-coding at the machines. It Is what it is and high end software has a High end price.I recently started moonlighting part time at a job shop that has purchased Esprit (I believe it's 2010) but hasn't gotten around to using it yet. I bought a Mori NMV5000DCG with Esprit on the MAPPS IV control and it was $30K for a stand alone seat dedicated to one machine. The learning curve is steep, kinda like NX or Catia but once you get it you will be pleased. You will be hard pressed to find much more software that works seamlessly with intergrex than Esprit so make em give you a temp seat. I just signed off on just under $200k for this years maintenance and licensing. Well over $1m in software EULA purchases only to be told we have to pay the yearly to keep it going. We have 39 seats of Powershape, Powermill, Mold Flow, then several other seats of Featurecam, Partmaker, and Power Inspect that we paid for. And yes, I hate the new subscription since Autodesk had to screw it up. The post has issues and since we didn't pay maintenance I'm dead in the water.I agree that the surfacing is lacking in a lot of places but having FBR/FBM kinda offsets the pain a bit. I was using better surface milling in the 90s. There are two major issues with Featurecam, 1.)they now require an annual payment for the software to continue working (basically a rental) 2.) Their surfacing sucks. I have been using Featurecam since 2003 so I know a lot about it too.

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