Luckily we have a lot of Mazak's and one of our customers is using UG to program Mazak's as well, and they have offered to share their posts and knowledge with us. Also, I know Mazak Kentucky uses UG for the advanced demonstrations and programming.
I haven't had good experiences with GibbsCAM...
The OS is Windows XP 32bit with 4GB of RAM. I hope to upgrade soon to Windows 7 64Bit, once all the bugs are worked out of windows. How much of a performance jump is it going to 64Bit windows versus 32 bit?
Thanks.
-Chuck
Thank you for all your replies. It always helps to hear it from people that are using it everyday.
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