MC 2021

Rob B · December 20, 2020, 06:45 PM

Is 2021 stable at this point. I am a small shop and hate fighting bugs. Looking to move from 2020 to 2021. Am I safe to switch? I have always been one to wait 4-6 months after release to load new software. Old habits are hard to break.

CNCAppsJames · December 21, 2020, 12:09 AM

The way I see it, bugs are just a reality. I always just jump in and deal with whatever comes up. Deal breakers have been pretty rare, but I've always been the kind of programmer that can work around/through things so I just go for it.

neurosis · December 21, 2020, 07:10 AM

I dove in to 2021 head first. I don't usually do that.

Other than the issue they had after update 2 where merging geometry from an old file destroyed the current file

I haven't had any issues that are show stoppers.

I do notice that some functions will make the software start glitching out but a restart of MC usually fixes it.

Dan_AKA_ROY23 · December 21, 2020, 07:56 AM

You can make the switch, Rob. All good here.

gcode · December 21, 2020, 08:16 AM

No problems here
They have put out 2 updates and Update 3 is in beta
It is scheduled for a public release early next year,

I have 4 programs running MC2021 with no issues

There will be a little bit of a learning curve with drafting.
It got a lot of upgrades and you will have to relearn some stuff
but once you do, you will like the changes.

gcode · December 21, 2020, 08:16 AM

No problems here
They have put out 2 updates and Update 3 is in beta
It is scheduled for a public release early next year,

I have 4 programmers running MC2021 with no issues

There will be a little bit of a learning curve with drafting.
It got a lot of upgrades and you will have to relearn some stuff
but once you do, you will like the changes.

Rob B · December 21, 2020, 05:20 PM

I guess I'm all in!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sharles · December 22, 2020, 03:56 AM

Hey Rob, I'm hoping to move up from 2019 to 2021 at the start of the new year. We skipped 2020 because it had a graphics issue in backplot that never got resolved: we were unable to rotate our parts in backplot when our finish 1.0" ball programs were on the screen for our large, headliner files. But I watched the Industrial Forum on emastercam.com and barely saw any complaints about 2021 (other than the brief destruction of files mentioned above), and so we need to make the jump though I truly get tired of dealing with all the issues that each jump requires.

We just started to make the jump from Nethasp to Codemeter and that turned into an all-day affair with me shooting emails and doing go-to meetings with our reseller until we got it fixed. Our IT guy just wanted to call it quits, but I figured we were committed at that point, and I do understand that if we don't keep up to date somewhat, we will get left behind...just like I hated to leave X9, which was imo, the best release in a long time, but we needed the simulation capabilities of 2019, and so that was a year of headaches as we made all the adjustments for that...sigh..

Anyway, good luck. I hope our transition goes well too when I get back from a week and a half of vacation and can face the headaches that always happen when we move up. I truly hate computers: it's rather ironic that I ended up in a profession that depends so much on them...