Looking for someone who has used both softwares and what you like and dislike about both of them. We have currently powermill for our edm dept. and worknc for our steel cutting dept. We are thinking about switching over to powermill for everything but Im looking for honest opinions from real world users before we do. Thanks!
WorkNC is an automatic software used to produce a safe and automatic GCode
Both have strengths and weaknesses but the most important thing on my point of view is the level of the users who can determine the choice of one solution or the other.
Thanks for all the info guys, We are slowly transitioning to powermill. Id say were split 50 50 using powermill and worknc now. I am finding that powermill is great in giving the user lots of options with toolpathing. Also its bad with giving the user lots of options with toolpathing 🙂
I would do some serious testing. Powermill has been getting slower with every new version. I get more crashes now than ever before too. I never used work NC but a coworker did and he really liked it. I really like powermill but since version 16 its been going down hill. Just my 2 cents.
@cheidenfelder good to hear your side. I have been using it for almost 15 years now. Worknc is easy and safe to use imo. BUT powermill is so much more functional and gives the user more options than wnc
