Creating Tool Libraries in Mastercam

OPTIMIZE YOUR USER EXPERIENCE! Creating Tool Libraries in Mastercam Creating your own Mill Tool library in Mastercam is an easy task that can make your programing more efficient. Using the tools for which you already defined and tested the feeds and speeds to increase productivity. You can create a separate library for each machine tool in…

Free Mill-Turn Tutorials

WHAT IS A MILL-TURN? Mastercam Mill-Turn Addon combines the power of Mastercam’s Mill and Lathe toolpaths with a suite of tools and technologies that let you program advanced multi-function and multi-stream lathes with build in machine simulations.  Mill -Turn machines consist of Lathe machines with a combination of Multiple Turrets, B-Axis Head and multiple Spindles.  Benefits…

Running Command Line Commands

Running command line commands start-up error nVidia Due to the latest Windows nVidia driver update, if you use Mastercam 2017 or 2018 on a laptop using newer nVidia GPUs, you will get the message “Running Command Line Commands”. Mastercam will not go past this screen on start-up.   To solve the issue; download and install this…

What Mastercam questions do you have?

Under the support tab you will find our popular How To Tips, keeping you “In-the-know” one Mastercam tip at a time. The In-House Solutions support specialists take note of the questions you ask. Our goal is to make your life easier, so we’ve compiled the answers to your most popular Mastercam 2017 questions here. To make finding things easy, we’ve organized the…

Threadmilling

Creating a Threadmill Toolpath   Toolpaths > Circle Paths > Threadmill   Enter new NC name > Accept     Select Entities and pick desired geometry     Accept    See all How To’s, Tips & Tricks and FAQ’s here! Presented by Sandy McClintock, Applications Support Specialist Do you have a topic or question you would like…

Licensing Error for Workstations on NetHASP

Nethasp: Unable to Launch Mastercam from Workstation Issue: When launching Mastercam from a workstation that needs to access the Nethasp for licensing, if it does not have access, one or both of the below pop-ups will occur.   Trouble Shooting: Note: At any point that (version) is present, enter/insert/reference the version of Mastercam in question. ie….

Turn Grid On/Off

Turn Grid On/Off Settings>Configuration     Screen>Grid Settings     If you’re finding when creating geometry you’re snapping to the grid and this is not what you want, turn off Active Grid.   See all How-To’s, Tips & Tricks and FAQ’s here! Presented by Sandy McClintock, Applications Support Specialist Do you have a topic or question you…

Status Bar Not Present

Status Bar Missing Note: At any point that (version) is present, enter/insert/reference the version of Matercam in question. i.e. A path states as ‘C:\Program Files\mcam(version)\common’ if you are working in Mastercam X8 the path will be ‘C:\Program Files\mcamX8/common’   Fix 1: Close Mastercam Start>All programs>Mastercam (version)>Utilities>Advanced Configuration     Reset Set Dialog Positions to Reset  …

Set Default Workspace

Set Default Workspace   Settings>Configuration     Start/Exit       See all How-To’s, Tips & Tricks and FAQ’s here! Presented by Sandy McClintock, Applications Support Specialist Do you have a topic or question you would like to see us cover? Let us know in the comment section below! Join the Conversation: Follow us on Twitter, Facebook…

Change Toolbar Colour

Change Toolbar Colour     On install Mastercam will default to have a grey background for the toolbars as seen below.     This can be modified, the overall look will change slightly as well.  Please follow the steps below…   File>Open User Folder     Browse to your configuration folder, the default location for this…

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