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America’s Cutting Edge (ACE) Adds Mastercam as a Featured Option for Program Participants
What is ACE? America's Cutting Edge (ACE) is a program managed by the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) designed to reestablish American leadership in the machine tool industry through transformative thinking, technological innovation, and workforce development. ACE connects top national experts with students and incumbent industrial workers from diverse backgrounds, levels of education, and work experience to build interest and provide no-cost online…
Mastercam at MACH 2024
What is MACH? MACH is the longest-running manufacturing and engineering exhibition in the UK and is the UK’s largest trade event for advanced engineering and manufacturing. MACH 2024 will be held in NEC Birmingham from April 15-19, with over 600 exhibitors, including Mastercam UK. The exhibition expects over 25,000 attendees this year to see live digital production systems all under one roof. MACH is owned…
Mastercam 2025 Public Beta: 3 Features to Explore
The Public Beta program for Mastercam 2025 is now available! Here's a look at how to participate in our Public Beta program and the top new features we are most excited for you to try in Mastercam 2025 Public Beta. How to Access Mastercam 2025 Public Beta If you're a Maintenance user, you can log in to your Mastercam account and download the free Public…
Women’s History Month Series
Spotlight on: Melissa Ramos To those concerned about the growing skills gap in the manufacturing industry, look to Melissa Ramos for encouragement. Her many titles include shop founder and full owner, first-generation machinist, woman of color, programmer and machinist, and content creator. She is not yet 30. After 11 years of intermittent work as a floater at U.S. Fabrication, she dedicated two years to learn…
Women’s History Month Series
Spotlight on: Aneesa Muthana Aneesa Muthana is CEO and co-owner of not one manufacturing company, but two. Pioneer Service Inc., located in the Chicagoland area, is a contract manufacturer specializing in precision Swiss parts and centerless grinding. It has been a Chicago-land staple since its founding in 1993, and continues to serve countless industries. M&M Quality Grinding, also located in Chicago, offers exceptional bar stock…
Women’s History Month Series
Spotlight on: Vivian Allen Vivian Allen is President and CEO of SigmaPro, a custom manufacturer specializing in designing, prototyping, and producing small, complex injection molded parts with tolerances down to 5 microns. SigmaPro is one of the very few micro-molding contract manufacturers in the US and has flourished under Allen’s management. Allen holds a BA in International Business from LeTourneau University and an Executive MBA…
Women’s History Month Series
Spotlight on: Toni Neary Toni Neary is the Director of Community Engagement and Workforce Innovation at SME. This nonprofit began as a professional membership society and has evolved to be an international driving force for education and advancement in the manufacturing industry. Over its near-century of work, SME has gone by many names: the American Society of Tool Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and…
Mastercam Probing Cycle Builder Released
Introducing the Cycle Builder: A new Feature in Mastercam Probing We are excited to announce that the Cycle Builder has been released and is available as part of the latest version of Mastercam Probing. The Cycle Builder is a powerful and innovative feature that enables anyone to create their own custom cycles or extend existing cycles in Mastercam Probing to their specific requirements. The Cycle…
A Closer Look: Creating the Nike of Samothrace Statue
The Winged Victory or Nike of Samothrace is a statue prominently featured in The Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Mastercam recently teamed up with YASDA Precision, Mitsubishi Materials, and Methods Machine Tools to create an 11-inch replication of the famed 18-foot statue. Within Mastercam, the statue is a mesh file with over five million facets and was 10 gigabytes in size. Mastercam took the part…
What Are Mastercam Add-Ons? Part Two
In part one of this blog series, we discussed what Mastercam Add-Ons are (specialized aftermarket software kits that work within the Mastercam interface) and covered four of the most commonly used Add-Ons: Multiaxis, Productivity+, Port Expert, and Mastercam Art. This second blog in the series will cover five more popular Add-Ons and how to use them. 5-Axis Curve Machining This particular Add-On is considered a…
Customer Profile: Joe LaFevre, Knox County Career Center
We caught up with Joe LaFevre, precision machining Instructor at Knox County Career Center, Mount Vernon, OH, to find out more about him and his insights on teaching CAD/CAM and machining. Here is what he had to say. Why did you choose manufacturing? I graduated from the Knox County Career Center’s Precision Machining class in 2007. My brother and uncle graduated from the same class…
A Closer Look: Creating the Mastercam Gingerbread House with Hermle
Mastercam proudly teamed up with our partners at Hermle to create a gingerbread house to celebrate the winter holiday season. When we approached Hermle with the idea of creating this festive piece, Kyle Brunner, Senior Applications Engineer at Hermle, was excited to get started and said the gingerbread house “belongs on a Hermle.” Working with Chad Chmura, Sales Engineer II at Mastercam, Kyle decided it…