Featured Stories
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…
Saving Your Shop’s Best Practices
Your shop’s intellectual labor is valuable. Protect it. By saving your best practices in a digital database, you streamline your production process and ensure that your hard work won’t be forgotten or lost. One of the best ways to do this is by employing your CAD/CAM software’s operations library. Mastercam’s Operations Library is a virtual catalogue of your previously defined machining strategies: combinations of your…
What Are Mastercam Add-Ons?
Mastercam CAD/CAM software is a self-contained, fully-capable NC-coding program for manufacturing applications. Within its main solution products, like Mill and Lathe, most users are able to program any part that comes across their desk. In some cases, however, processes can be streamlined or precision boosted with outside help. That’s where Add-Ons come into play. A Mastercam Add-On is a software extension that delivers additional Mastercam…
4 Ways to Learn Mastercam
Mastercam provides unparalleled support and service to our users, including a wide variety of resources for learning Mastercam. From those looking to teach Mastercam in their classes, to those just looking to freshen their skills, we have a solution for you to get up to speed with the most widely used CAM software in the world. 1. Mastercam University Mastercam University offers 24/7 access to…
Wireframes, Surfaces, and Solids – What Are They?
In most cases – and especially when a customer has provided only a description or 2D drawing of a part – the first step in the machining process is to build a digital model of the desired part. This model will be a precise, virtual 3D representation of the part’s dimensions, planes, and contours. In CAD (computer-aided design) programming, there are three main types of…
What is Dynamic Motion and Should I Be Using It?
Dynamic Motion technology powers numerous toolpaths within the Mastercam solutions lineup. Essentially, Dynamic is a nuanced and meticulous set of proprietary algorithms that optimize machining. One subset in the Dynamic family is 2D Dynamic. Use this blog as a guide to what it is, how it works, and how it could benefit you. What is 2D Dynamic? 2D Dynamic is a function within the Mill…
Mastercam Sponsors Project MFG’s “Clash of the Trades” Competition
As response to the U.S. skilled-labor shortage, specifically in manufacturing, Project MFG, Kansas City, MO, collaborates with communities, educators, and industry leaders to evaluate the nation’s next generation of highly skilled trade professionals. The organization’s goal is to improve lives and America’s future by promoting the prestige of manufacturing careers, increasing the manufacturing trade workforce training and education pipeline, and boosting the manufacturing industrial base.…
Celebrating Manufacturing Month
Every October marks a celebration of Manufacturing Month to highlight the importance of manufacturing innovation across the United States. Why we celebrate Manufacturing Month Manufacturing Month honors the success of manufacturers and encourages students or those looking to change career paths to explore the evolving industry. Thousands of businesses and schools participate in Manufacturing Month to recognize and promote the success of U.S. manufacturers in…
What is Mastercam APlus?
Additive manufacturing and subtractive manufacturing are no longer mutually exclusive. In fact, to truly get the most out of either, it’s best to combine them in hybrid manufacturing. Mastercam’s new Add-on, Mastercam APlus® by CAMufacturing Solutions Inc., does exactly that. This blog will cover what additive and subtractive manufacturing are, what APlus is, and how it can help you in your own shop. What is…
Meet Mastercam Partner: NASA HUNCH
What is NASA HUNCH? NASA HUNCH (High school students United with NASA to Create Hardware program) is a national instructional partnership between NASA and high school or intermediate/middle school students to participate in the design and fabrication of real-world value products for NASA. This year marks the 20th year for the popular program, with over 500 classroom programs participating across 46 states. HUNCH has sent…
OptiRough: The Roughing Solution You Might Be Overlooking
OptiRough is an advanced roughing strategy powered by Dynamic Motion technology, which is designed to optimize cutting approaches. The way Dynamic Toolpaths works is by monitoring every aspect of machining in real-time; it is constantly calculating the best feeds and angles to run parts the fastest and safest way possible. The only downside to OptiRough is that not every programmer knows about it, and some…
Mastercam Announces New Add-On for Additive Manufacturing
September 12, 2023 (Tolland, Conn.) – Mastercam, the world’s leading CAD/CAM software, has announced a new Add-On product, Mastercam APlus® by CAMufacturing Solutions, which was designed for additive manufacturing. APlus can be used with Mastercam Mill, Lathe, or Router licenses. Using the same interface Mastercam users are familiar with, APlus customers can program, backplot, and simulate their 3D printing scenarios just like they would with…