We have now added assignments and exercises to provide a roadmap for your Mastercam journey.
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Well, you guessed it, one of our first stops at Westec was the Mastercam booth. I counted at least 15 people wearing the white shirts with the Mastercam logo and overheard a sales person who had counted up 300 qualified leads by noon on Monday. There is no doubt about it, the present and future of machining Industry in the U.S. is all about multi axis, cell manufacturing and you had better have the CAM system to back it up.
Setting up the Machine Tool and using good manufacturing practices are just as important as writing a good program. Ron Branch points out the importance of the fundamentals in this excellent article on machine setup.
reprinted with permission
The setting up, on machine tools seems to be a lost art these days. Most people get in such a hurry to get something going they forget the basics. It is just like building a house you cannot build the roof without first building the foundation and the walls.
There are three main advantages to using a horizontal Machining Center in production. • The Pallet rotates, allowing for multiple operations
• Typically there are two Pallets, allowing for one Pallet to be loaded while the other is in the cut.
• Gravity allows better chip evacuation from hole and cavity operations, allowing for increased productivity and better tool life.
There is, however an advantage that trumps all others and will enable your Horizontal to perform the Lions share of the mill work in your Shop: Flexibility.
I had an enlightening consumer experience the other day, I make online training videos and I was not satisfied with the audio quality,
After reading up online, I came to the conclusion that I needed either a better sound card for my laptop or a peripheral device that would replace my sound card and give me good quality audio, I decided on the second option and made my way down to Guitar Center.
Walking in through the main doors of Westec you will be greeted by a Salesperson in a technician’s outfit. Haas gets it.
when I talk Machine Tools, I want to speak with a knowledgeable salesperson. That technician’s outfit sends the message that this company is all business.
If you have been wondering if shrink fit tooling (left) is right for you, you're not alone. I stopped by the Haimer booth at Westec and asked Haimer U.S.A. President Brendt Holden what it's all about.
Shrink fit tooling uses an inductive heating process to expand the bore of the tool holder, so that you can slip in a cutting tool, the next step is a 30 second cooling process that shrinks the tool holder around the shank of the tool, creating essentially a press fit, Just repeat the heating process to remove the tool.
Were here folks, after a seamless flight on Southwest, we enter the fray in Los Angeles and head for the L.A. convention center. It's overcast and cool, and we soon learn to count to three before entering an intersection on a green light. Angelinos view red lights as suggestions, rather than mandatory.
The 2009 Northern California H-TEC conference was held at DeAnza College in Cupertino on October 24th and featured speakers from around the State on the future of the Metal Working Industry, judging by the attendance, the future looks bright.
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5 Axis Impeller
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5 Axis indexing toolpaths
Rotary 4th Axis Indexing
x4 lathe-grooving
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x4 feature based machining
X4 2D HighSpeed machining
X4 Pocket Toolpaths
Lathe-roughing and finishing the outside diameter
Lathe-facing the part
Lathe-Setting up the Stock
Suspension brace with surface high speed machining
Suspension brace with 3D Surface toolpaths
fill holes for 3D machining
fixturing-uniforce clamps
tombstone fixturing part one
horizontal workholding-tombsone and pedestal overview
threadmilling
verify using xform stl
horizontal machining the backside
copying toolpaths
edit common parameters
high speed machining-area clearance
high speed machining overview
horizontal programming
3d surface finish toolpaths
3d surface rough pocket
rotary indexing
create new tool
chains
2D toolpaths contour
G-Code Post processing
verify, stl compare
operations manager
Xform project to a surface
Drill Toolpaths
work coordinate system (WCS)
Rotary axis substitution
SOlid Modeling
Advanced Geometry
2D Geometry Creation
Volume 1-Mastercam Level one the basics
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