Posted today to Practically Worthless Machinist by "Edster". This post is further confirmation of what I have said for well over a year... OneCNC XR2 doesn't properly support multiple fixture offsets. Bottlebob got it wrong, Weedwacker is too stupid to know what proper multiple fixture offset support is and Joe 788 is still lying about crapware he has no clue about. It's bad enough Joe788 can barely use Mastercam even though he's been trying to learn how to use it for many years.
"I bought onecnc around the time they came out with xr. I upgraded to xr2, and I've seen the rapid rate of development of the software. I don't really understand why the 2.5d development is lacking so much. If the company is able to figure out complex nurbs calculations what is the big deal with fixing the 2.5d stuff. I did try the 3d toolpaths for some 2.5d stuff but the problem was with z level roughing it's using what looks like the 2.5d pocketing path. It might be model aware but it's still the same clumsy path. They might have fixed some of the problems with xr3, but they just released that a few months ago. I've been using featurecam for a couple of years now. They don't have as rapid of a development rate as onecnc, but that's because they have something that works well and they don't need so much devolopment. I will keep onecnc for now and I probably will upgrade to xr3, but not untill xr4 is about ready to come out and I can get the xr3 upgrade practically free But that's because I'm probably using it 5% of the time now.
Btw, they added templates, but do they have multiple tool cribs, I have one for each machine with the specific tool numbers for each tool, and I can easily switch them or switch tools from a master library to each machine. Featurecam also has something similar to the templates, it's called machining attributes, and it can be customized so featurecam defaults to what you have set in the attributes. You can also have a specific machining attribute file for each part if you need to tweek certain things, or have a family of parts, or want differrent attributes for different machines. Has one cnc added any multiple fixture support to the software?"
Jon Banqeur San Diego, CA