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It's a real shame that Autodesk has basically abandoned HSMWorks when compared with Inventor HSM. As someone who has tried Inventor and been frustrated by how difficult the most basic of modeling/CAM prep operations are to complete, it really adds insult to injury that us Solidworks users have to wait what seems to be an eternity for existing features from Inventor HSM to be "ported" over.
New posts for esoteric/oddball/uncommon/hobby grade controls is fine and all but, for those of us who actually need to make money with HSMWorks, that effort seems to be wasteful when there are so many significant areas that need improvement.
To be fair, I don't believe the post team is responsible for toolpath development so I wouldn't blame new posts for lack of parity.
That said, all I really want is transparency and promises kept as best as possible, and to know when they are delayed. The Fusion CAD dev team is quite good at this but it's difficult to know what's going on with HSM I find.
I was hoping that @fonsecr or @al.whatmough would step in here in short order and provide us with an update or general timeline.
We always try to balance what makes it in to which products first. Some things are easy to add to all three products, and others are not. Probing is solidly in the latter category, while other features like new toolpaths typically make it into HSMWorks first.
Anyway, for what it's worth, we are actually in progress on porting Probing to HSMWorks. It's a lot of work, though, so the Q3 timeframe is probably more accurate.
@Anonymous Autodesk abandoning HSMWorks in comparison to HSM/Fusion couldn't be further from the truth!! HSMWorks overall gets FAR more love than Inventor HSM does. Those numbers make for somber reading for Inventor HSM users. I'm actually getting really fed up with HSMWorks users saying that it gets no development when the reality is completely the opposite.
▸Seven updates for HSMWorks for SOLIDWORKS since 03/01/2016
@scottmoyse you really have to separate a couple of things here.
The number of development releases doesn't mean new things of course. Could also be one small bug fix for the installer.
But big part of being fully in the Autodesk Environment is you are on the old ways release schedule.
HSMWorks users were used to a different pace in development they could actually see and got in their hands. So while you might say Inventor HSM is even lacking behind that doesn't change the fact that for HSMWorks users the development feels slow, and I truly understand the feeling that they are scared HSMWorks will be dropped. Because how much everyone says it's not, it's more likely than dropping Inventor HSM.
All true Kernel New things also show up in Inventor but I don't think they are always documented there.
Most new things users actually see happen are on the not HSMWorks side. Like fully new things like Probing. New WCS.
It mainly a thing of kernel is usually first seen in HSMWorks, stuff that requires UI is first seen in Fusion 360 or Inventor HSM.
The point Laurens, is that clearly based on those numbers, which are factual, HSMWorks is far from dead. It's in the same boat as the other two products, each just depends on which bits you use or want to use that your opinion is formed. For every HSMWorks user getting upset about not having probing, there are Inventor HSM & Fusion users getting upset about not being able to do simultaneous 4 axis or proper 5-axis surfacing, or having some form of Machine simulation, even though they've been paying a premium to have it in the product since HSM PRO was launched. We can argue details about all of those points left right and center, but I have little patience these days for HSMWorks users throwing their toys out of their cots, saying Inventor HSM always gets all the good stuff, when that simply isn't the case. There are some hideous long standing user interface bugs in Inventor HSM that haven't been fixed for years... if anyone with decision making clout on the HSM team actually used Inventor HSM, then they would see those and have them dealt with pronto... which is the kind of thing that happens with HSMWorks (as you can see in the bug fix numbers I shared), and of course Fusion 360.
And for HSMWorks users they are using a plugin developed by Autodesk for one of its main rival's software so they will always feel they are being left even when they actually get more. And I understand that we cannot change that feeling. Even 3 years from now people will have that feeling when for a very legitime reason they got 1 thing later than one of the other products. The only thing we can do is prove with time that that feeling isn't necessary, because no other argument is going to win it.
