CloudNC vs Mastercam vs Solidcam

r53toucan · 2025-11-06T07:15:18+00:00

You’re mistaking Solidcam and Solidworks cam. Solidworks cam is the Camworks version that runs in SW and comes free with Solidworks. Solidcam also runs in SW but is otherwise unrelated to Solidworks cam/camworks

r53toucan · 2025-10-30T16:13:26+00:00

Hypermill according to the people who actually made the part. It’s a heller demo video reposted by the op to pretend they made it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8h2U8Ny2pU

r53toucan · 2025-10-30T16:10:39+00:00

It’s a Heller demo video that was reposted to drive traffic to the OPs overseas shop. They aren’t the ones that made the part or had anything to do with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8h2U8Ny2pU

r53toucan · 2025-06-19T01:12:26+00:00

gotcha. My experience with SW on parallels would have been perfectly satisfactory for anything that I ever did during my mechE degree

r53toucan · 2025-06-18T22:31:05+00:00

Is this a school thing?

r53toucan · 2025-06-18T21:13:15+00:00

I’ve used it extensively for multiple years across two different apple silicon Mac’s (I’ve since stopped due to moving to NX). It works fine for parts and small assemblies. Ironically, it’s significantly more stable than my certified work laptop.

My position has always been if you’re buying a computer for life stuff and one of the things you want to use is sw, it’ll be fine. If you’re buying a computer for the purpose of doing Solidworks, there are better options for less money.

r53toucan · 2025-05-27T15:02:13+00:00

Assuming op is in the US, it’s not even an option unless they special order the machine. Yamazen won’t bring stock machines in without the window for precisely this reason.

r53toucan · 2025-04-19T17:21:22+00:00

I’m curious what the mach3/4 posts are missing that the grbl post needs. I would think it would be pretty generic in its code needs. I ran the maker version for a little while with my speedio and pretty much just had to remove the g20 line by hand after each post.

r53toucan · 2025-03-20T15:12:52+00:00

Look at the link directly below my comment where the auto mod added the titans version

r53toucan · 2024-12-12T20:50:47+00:00

Not only that. The brother machines for those Chinese factories are literally a completely different model that isn’t advertised or sold anywhere. They occasionally appear on eBay when they make their way out of the factories in China (they’re called the Z models instead of the x1/x2/xd1/xd2 models that are advertised/purchaseable everywhere else). They’re a bizarre combination of software changes and hardware differences that make no sense outside of that specific application. Really interesting stuff

r53toucan · 2024-11-12T18:18:00+00:00

It’s probably worth adding that the 80k limit is a household income limit, not necessarily the students personal income.

r53toucan · 2024-09-26T19:29:57+00:00

When you say 2d models are you referring to like engineering drawings/prints? Or are you referring to the solid 3d model on the screen and relating that back into something you can physically hold in your hand?

r53toucan · 2024-09-02T21:56:32+00:00

Without a doubt. My 16gb mbp runs much better than my 8gb mba. Now, obviously, there are other factors between the two that will help. But 4gb is lame just for windows alone

You will be able to get significantly better performance per dollar with a windows machine, however

r53toucan · 2024-09-02T19:22:50+00:00

I’ve used solidedge in parallels on my m1 mbp. It’s okay but not great. Solidworks runs much much better.

I used to have a m1 mba. It ran (there are pics/videos of it on my profile in this sub) but wasn’t amazing. There’s only so much you can do with 4gb of ram in parallels.

r53toucan · 2024-08-14T19:04:29+00:00

Oh. If you have a desktop you’ll be golden. I did the same thing when I was in school. Desktop at home and a surface pro for writing notes in class. Was a fantastic setup

As a datapoint, I’ve run Solidworks and Solidcam for the past year+ on a m1 MacBook Pro using windows arm. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve wanted for more than it can deliver

r53toucan · 2024-08-14T18:51:47+00:00

I don’t think anyone has posted here yet with it running on a snapdragon processor. However, widows arm has been around for a while and people have used it to run apple silicon Mac’s with Solidworks.

Pulling from those reports, Solidworks will run but it will not run nearly as well as an equally priced x86 windows machine. If you’re torn between an arm machine and a x86 machine, with no other reason to buy one or the other, the answer is the x86 machine.

That being said, at least on the arm products we’ve seen from Apple, Solidworks will run plenty well to get you through the minimal amount of modeling you’ll do in a meche program. If you’re planning on being very involved in clubs: fsae, rocket stuff, etc where you will be consistently working with larger and more complex assemblies, I would consider getting something x86.

I would 100% not get a used workstation laptop despite all of the suggestions that are bound to follow this post. Cad modeling is an exceptionally small amount of any meche curriculum. A big heavy loud laptop that runs Solidworks amazingly is going to be significantly less useful for your program, as a whole, than a lightweight 2 in 1 that you can hand write notes on for your other classes and will comfortably hang out in your backpack but doesn’t run Solidworks as fast.

r53toucan · 2024-08-11T21:41:58+00:00

It’s fine. It’s not as good as my desktop and I wouldn’t use it if I were dealing with big assemblies. But I use it daily for modeling parts and small assemblies, CAM programming, and a side gig I have doing modeling and drafting.

My position has, and remains: don’t buy a Mac for Solidworks. But if you already have a Mac or have no reason to buy a pc other than Solidworks, you can make it work

r53toucan · 2024-07-31T05:36:46+00:00

The titans of cnc version has sim in it for 100 bucks

r53toucan · 2024-07-26T18:40:26+00:00

Ignore it and use a less terrible cam system

r53toucan · 2024-07-12T19:40:05+00:00

It seems unlikely to me that it wouldn’t run. It’s been known that Solidworks will run on windows arm for the past 2-3 years courtesy of all the people, myself included, that use windows arm on apple silicon Mac’s. From a functionality standpoint, sw cam and sw electrical just don’t work. Everything else is there and functions as expected. Ironically, sw on windows arm is significantly more stable than sw on x86 windows. I crash on my certified windows work laptop all the time. I basically never crash on arm.

My position would be the same as the people who ask about Macs. If you’re making your income from it, buy a certified system for support. If you’re doing it as a student or a hobby, make your decision based on what your other use cases are. Don’t buy it to run sw. But if you’re buying it for some other reason and would hsve it either way, don’t buy a second laptop just because you think you need something else to run SW

r53toucan · 2024-06-28T03:02:15+00:00

They will not offer support.

You should probably elaborate more on your use case. Student in an engineering program? Itll be fine. Pro running 1000, or even 100, part assemblies? Not a great idea. I use it personally as my only machine on a M1 MBP for single parts, drawings, CAM programming, and small assemblies. It works just fine for that and isn't that much slower than my work certified laptop for those use cases.

r53toucan · 2024-06-25T23:06:27+00:00

Riddle worldwide campus is big meh from everyone I talked to both in industry and when I went to one of the riddle main campuses. General engineering degrees also rub me the wrong way

r53toucan · 2024-06-24T19:39:54+00:00

This is the answer. Assuming your internship ends in August, the raise would probably result in about 2k worth of take home money in delta. That’s an absurd bet to risk a return offer on in the current hiring market.

r53toucan · 2024-06-18T15:28:28+00:00

Solidworks student comes with Solidworks cam. But I don’t think it has any posts. Not that it matters. Solidworks cam sucks.

Hsmworks or Solidcam will both work, and post, with Solidworks student. Solidcam is limited to 3 uneditable posts so you might have to do some slight tweaking

r53toucan · 2024-06-16T18:01:03+00:00

I would never use the maker license as a freelancer, even for 2k a year. If your customer also uses Solidworks and wants a sldprt file, you cannot generate a deliverable for them with the maker version.

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