He had a very long experience using Esprit, while doing project work for the mill-turn and swiss type customers, who bought such CNC machines from the machine tool resellers, where he worked before.īy the way, study his resume well – these are the experiences you need in a candidate, when hiring a new technical employee, who will be the technical expert to push our SolidCAM advanced mill-turn and Swiss type solution in this market niche, where we have the greatest potential to dominate. We have recently hired a new technical employee for our SolidCAM US team. That was painful, and very interesting at the same time. I was a beta tester, and offered a lot of feedback for the upcoming "Esprit TNG". I agree, the current offering of Esprit looks like something from 2000. Only then, will you be able to really have the control you might be after. That being said, it will take you quite some time to really get your act tight and really understand how Esprit "sees" the way it looks at making the toolpaths. Where Esprit shines, in MY opinion, is automated toolpath generation, and the level of control\simplicity during complex multiaxis toolpaths. I still find, unless using the automation features in Esprit, that Mastercam is faster for BASIC toolpath generation.Īlso, simple 3d contouring toolpaths will generally be easier in Mastercam. “ I've used Esprit for 8 years, and Mastercam for 10 years prior. Many existing users refuse to move to “Esprit TNG” and others are considering new software instead, an opportunity for selling SolidCAM! TNG is not backward compatible to previous ESPRIT versions! You can only simulate previous CAM parts and cannot do any edit to them! Esprit have a completely new version: “ Esprit TNG” – absolutely confusing for the thousands of existing Esprit customers!!