Mastercam Consulting Training

In-House Solutions offers a one-hour training session during consulting training days, free of charge to our maintenance customers. This class allows you to bring Mastercam related questions to an In-House Solutions applications specialist.  OVERVIEW  Learn the newest features in the latest version. Bring your part files to receive assistance in areas that have been giving you…
Below is the sample part to demonstrate the function to split a surface and move a surface. Model Prep – Split Create a line on both sides of the feature that you would like to Split / Move. MODEL PREP > Split Solid Face Select face. If there is a solid history linked to this part, the…
Move to Origin will move all visible entities relative to the point selected to the origin. If in 2D mode, the entities will move in the X and Y axis only but maintain the current Z values. If in 3D mode, the entities will move in all axes. Therefore the point selected to move to the origin…
In this video we’ll guide you through the use of the dynamic transform tool, allowing you to easily reposition the parts you’re designing. For Mastercam X8, X9, 2017 and up Drag Function is now Transform Dynamic In Mastercam X7 and previous versions, the Drag was a function available under Xform. Starting with Mastercam X8 and moving forward, this function…
In this video we’ll show you how to create splines when given a series of coordinate points. For Mastercam 2017 and up. Scenario: The drawing supplied is not correct but a list of the points to create the arc is available Tip: In Excel, enter all the points into 2 columns. Save the file as a CSV. Mastercam…
In this video we’ll show you how to delete duplicates and find overlap, solving two main issues you may run into when chaining. For Mastercam 2017 and up. When creating toolpaths, it can be difficult to chain the correct geometry if there is overlapping and duplicated geometry present. One may also notice overlapping and duplicated geometry…
Mastercam contains four pre-defined fonts: Block Box Roman Slant These fonts are contained in a folder with the font name as the folder name under C:\Program Files\mcam(version)\common\Fonts There is a mcx file for each character. These files can be opened and modified. If these are going to be modified, it is highly recommended that the new files be…