ESPRIT Reviews & Product Details

What I like the most about Esprit is its support team. I can email them, and within minutes I will get a response from one of their Applications Engineers trying to assist me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about Esprit is its lack of tool holders for machines that they support. With more complex swiss machines, there are attachments that one can put in and take out, yet Esprit does not seem to support all of my manufacturer's tool holders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Esprit can program the most complex mill-turn machines with complete machine simulation. The output NC code can be predictable. Machine simulation will catch most programming miss-steps in tight machines. Wire EDM programming is almost effortless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some tool path calculations can be exceedingly long & are reliant to the whole process. Making a quick change can result in hours of recalculating time for features that shouldn't change. Everything is feature based. You have to convert model geometry to a feature in order to apply a tool path. Tools need to be defined & oriented in the machine layout long before considering a cutting strategy. Post processor is quite complicated for complex machines, but can be nice for simple machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

His speed and capability of course. This program is very fast if you compare with the others. His functions are limited than others but with same functions I can completely say that this program is faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interface. Even if you work with better at old fashioned computers you could improve your interface a little bit more. We're living in second decade of 2000s so it would be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The post processor features make or break the usability of the CAM software. In this case we are using a new Mitsubishi Wire EDM, and my limited experience with this machine and Esprit is that there are many options that are accessible with a click of the mouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Esprit uses a series of tab pages to select and turn off and on and adjust values for programming tool path. For the machine we use there are a lot of options, and initially the decriptions are very cryptic. It takes several iterations to accomplish the desired program. Don't know if this could be done differently but it is one of the more difficult aspects of learning the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No I don't mean electronic Dance music. 4 axis programming is now so easy thanks to it's feature recognition. The older versions made you think and work. Now most of my guys can use all features :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Electronic Dance Music. Well EDM acronym is much older and means Electric Discharge Machining. There's not much to discredit Esprit as it's easy once you know the icons. My criticism is that STEP import is an expensive addon. So instead of buying this we put the cost toward SolidWorks and this made all the difference. So not only can we make tool paths but we can now solid model. Well I say now we were able before but managed to upgrade from 1997 to 2017 and beyond. Doesn't take a genius to see that we've exponentially increased our skills Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple navigation and accurate code posting. The icons are very user friendly and easy to memorize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maintenance contracts. The prices for yearly maintenance contracts which includes software and hardware support and upgrades is far too expensive. Even if your maintenance contract expires I would think there would be support available for your current version but that is not the case. If for example you need support in transferring the software to a new computer or develop a problem with the software they are very reluctant to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.