Spring Promo at the iMastercam Store

It’s time to break out the short-sleeve shirts! Looking for something new to wear? We have several options for you at iMastercamstore.com.

From May 20 - 24, 2013 use code SPMY15 and receive 15% off your entire order, excluding shipping and taxes. Choose from a wide selection of light polos and T-shirts. We also offer FLEXFIT baseball caps in navy and silver/gray.

Visit iMastercamstore by clicking here.

Eastec Wrap Up

What a great week we had at Eastec and surrounding open house events! Mastercam was there in force in many booths throughout the show, including our corporate booth, Cimquest, Compumachine, Macdac, and on the majority of the machines running throughout the show. We also had a presence at Able Machine Tool Sales, Inc. (Agawam, MA), Discover More with Mazak Northeast (Windsor Locks, CT), and Tri-TECH 2012 (HFO Trident, Windsor, CT). If you were at any of these events, you were sure to see what our newest release, Mastercam X7 has to offer. A few capabilities, enhancements, and products you may have seen are:

• Mill-Turn
• Support for Renishaw’s Productivity+™
• Redesigned Tool Manager
• New Mastercam Simulator
• More efficient Dynamic and OptiRough toolpaths 
• Dynamic roughing strategies for Lathe toolpaths
• Multi-threading support for 2D high speed toolpaths
• Mastercam Swiss Expert
• And much more

 

Our Sales Manager with Jeremy Bout of the Edge Factor

Additionally, we held another one of our Mastercam Meet-ups Wednesday night at Lattitude Restaurant right across the street from the show. With a turnout of over 30 people, we had a great time chatting over a few drinks and some delicious appetizers. If you made it, we’d like to thank you for coming. If not, we’ll see you at the next one!

Mastercam X7 Preview 6: Faster Processing

Speed comes in many forms. How easy is it to program a toolpath? How quickly can that toolpath get the part off the machine? And the subject of today's post - how fast does the software process? Mastercam X7 delivers several different methods that speed up processing time and let you get to what's important - cutting chips.

IOF Competition Deadline Reminder

We have gotten many inquiries about our Innovator of the Future Competition and we know there are lots of students out there working hard on their entries. This is just a quick reminder that the deadline is next week, May 15th.  Parts need to be postmarked by May 15th, not to our door, so that means you still have a little bit of time left to put the finishing touches on your parts and get them in the mail to us.  If you need a refresher on the contest details, please visit: http://mastercam.com/iof/contest.html.

Please mail your parts to:

CNC Software, Inc.

C/O IOF 2013 Competition

671 Old Post Road

Tolland, CT 06084

We are very much looking forward to seeing what you’ve been working on. Please stay tuned for the results.

Mastercam X7 is Released!

It’s here! With dozens of powerful new tools and enhancements, Mastercam X7 is ready to help you make the most of your shop.

If you want to see what X7 has to offer, click on over to http://whatsnew.mastercam.com/ for a quick tour of some of the highlights, or come to one of our global Rollout events.
 
Packages will begin shipping in the coming weeks, but if you’re a current maintenance customer, you can download Mastercam X7 right now at:

http://mastercam.com/Support/Downloads/MastercamX7/Default.aspx#X7

Please contact your local Mastercam Reseller with any questions and happy programming!

Let's Meet Up at Eastec

Come see Mastercam at EASTEC, May 14 - 16 at the Eastern States Exposition (West Springfield, MA) in multiple booths! In the Better Living Building (Building 5), you’ll find our CNC Software, Inc.  in our Corporate Booth (#5249), Mastercam Reseller Cimquest, Inc. (booth #5377), and Mastercam Reseller Macdac Engineering (booth #5537). At each booth, we’ll be featuring the latest in powerful Mastercam machining software, Mastercam X7! This new version introduces significant new capabilities and enhancements, including:

• Mill-Turn
• Support for Renishaw's Productivity+™
• Redesigned Tool Manager
• New Mastercam Simulator
• More efficient Dynamic and OptiRough toolpaths
• Dynamic roughing strategies for Lathe toolpaths
• Multi-threading support for 2D high speed toolpaths
• And much more

Also, on May 15 from 5 – 7 PM, come hang out with Mastercam professionals after the show at the Red Room in Lattitude Restaurant, located right across the street from the show. This is a great opportunity for us to chat with our customers and for you to grab the ears of some key staffers. We would love to hear about what you do and what you think about the software. We have no agenda and no real plans, but if you want to come and just hang out with the Mastercam crew, we would love to spend some time with you off the trade show floor.



Here's the details:


When: May 15, 5 – 7 PM

Where: Lattitude Restaurant, 1338 Memorial Ave, West Springfield, MA 01089



If you would like to join us, please click here to register. It's free and we hope to see you there!

Mastercam Reaches All Ages

The supposition that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” certainly does not apply when it comes to mastering the benefits of CAD/CAM with Mastercam. At Renton Technical College in Renton, Washington, students in their fifties are getting a firm foothold on a manufacturing career just as quickly as those recently graduated from high school. Some of the older students work swing or graveyard shifts at manufacturing companies, others have been recently laid off or have their sights set on a career with more opportunities than their current job situation.

Mastercam has been a major influence at Renton Tech for more than 20 years, as has Francisco Martinez, head of the school’s 2-year Precision Manufacturing Technology program. While the younger men and women have had daily contact with computers almost from birth and catch on really fast as expected, those in their 40’s and 50’s have responded exceedingly well. Mr. Martinez gives much of the credit to the Mastercam tutorials, with easy-to-understand and well-illustrated lessons. He stays with the Mastercam lesson plans right from the basics to actually machining the parts shown in the tutorials.

 

Mr. Martinez introduces his students to Mastercam in the sixth quarter, after they have mastered basic and G-code programming. He starts with simple geometry and 2D programming of tool paths, such as contouring and pocketing. Once they are comfortable with 2D, they proceed to 3D programming, as well as 4-axis and 5-axis machining.  They have 25 computer stations in their Mastercam lab, all loaded with the latest Mastercam software. By using state-of-the-art Mastercam technology, Mr. Martinez knows that his students, both older and younger, and their future employers all benefit from the newly acquired CAD/CAM skills.