machining speed going from personal to paid

[robpage]

I'm a hobbyist using personal Fusion for machining on my Onefinity.  I know rapid movements are disabled in the free version —fair enough.  But I'm wondering how much faster my runtimes would be upgrading to paid?  I know that's really vague and subjective but I literally don't need anything else in the paid version and I'd be kicking myself if I spent all that money for software I don't earn anything with only to find the difference is barely noticable.

So what do you think?  Ballpark it—would I see a 10% improvement in run times?  20%?  2%?

[seth.madore]

Well, I suppose it depends on the amount of non-cutting movement you're doing. If it's large sheet work with lots of back and forth, it could easily be upwards of 20% of your time. If you program efficiently with "no-rapid" in mind, you can do quite a bit to keep things reasonable (considering hobby and all).

However..

Are you at all considering adding a 4th axis to your machine? With commercial, you have the ability for "simple" 4-axis toolpaths by way of "Wrap" 2D Pocket and Contour. That may not be of use to you at this point.

So yeah, if it's only rapids, then if I were in your shoes, I'd likely just continue with the Personal. 

[robpage]

Thanks.  I went ahead and bought a year license.  What the heck, I'm hoping to make money with it someday!  haha. 

While I have you here...is there something I have to do beyond having "Preserve rapid movement" selected under "Linking" in the "High Feedrate Mode" popup?

[seth.madore]

So you're saying my ploy at reverse psychology worked?! 🤣

Nope, should be all set.

What post processor are you using, do we have one for your machine? Yep, we do

[robpage]

Hahaha.  Nah, I just figured I'd get my karma together and pay up.  Now my business will surely take off!  

Using Onefinity post processor (screenshot attached).  I have a Onefinity XL Journeyman.  

[seth.madore · Accepted solution]

Awesome, welcome to the club! Don't hesitate to fire off a new thread if you run into an issue or need a sanity check on what you're doing, we're here to help!

[robpage]

Oh you're going to regret writing that! hahahahahah. Thx Seth

[seth.madore]

At 10,636 responses and 1,725 solutions, I don't think that's likely 😉