Well I have been extremely busy the last few weeks so have not managed to get onto the Mill side of BobCAD up until tonight.
Just tried it and all I can say is what a difference compared to Lathe. Dont get me wrong, Lathe is working well now that I have got the PP right and learned about the idiosyncrasies it has and have some workarounds for other things but it still has some things that are a PITA. That is not to say it is not good, it is, it is better than a lot of Lathe CAM I have tried, even some that cost 2 or 3 or more times as much.
Mill however seems to be on a different planet, I have only done a simple pocket operation but the steps to do it are nice and logical and in a walk through kind of format that can be skipped over or ended at any point.
Another thing that seems a huge improvement over Lathe is the speed of the toolpath generation, I was dreading the time it would take to generate a toolpath after seeing the speed Lathe does it, but it was instant in Mill. Granted it was just a simple rough and finish of a pocket with two tools but a comparable rough and finish on the OD in Lathe takes about 30 seconds to generate, Mill is instant, dont even see it doing it, toolpath just appears
I am sure when I try more complex things the path generation time will get longer but it seems to be good so far
Hood