New Mastercam Users

[JParis]

Of note for new Mastercam users, the Quick Part series and Mastercam University

The Quick Part series provides some in-depth overview on using Mastercam.

Mastercam University is free until the end of June 2021...they had previously made it free almost all of last year with Covid

If you're a new user these can be helpful to get you going and on your way

https://www.mastercam.com/support/education-resources/">https://www.mastercam.com/support/education-resources/

[Hardmill]

Ive pointed a few ppl towards it and no go
Some of these youngsters just dont wanna learn

















PEACE

[neurosis]

Haha.. I got bored and did it one weekend.  I did pretty good but was surprised at some of the things that I missed.

[So not a Guru]

Ive pointed a few ppl towards it and no go
Some of these youngsters just dont wanna learn

















PEACE

Yep, I can't tell you how many operators have said "I want to learn Mastercam", so I point them to HLE & tutorial resources. Then...crickets

[gcode]

Yup.. I've taken two of my old workstations, cleaned them up, reinstalled Windows, installed HLE
and given them to a couple of young guys who expressed interest in learning Mastercam.
I haven't seen any evidence of any work getting done.. and neither has asked any questions

[DUM1]

Yup.. I've taken two of my old workstations, cleaned them up, reinstalled Windows, installed HLE
and given them to a couple of young guys who expressed interest in learning Mastercam.
I haven't seen any evidence of any work getting done.. and neither has asked any questions

Did the same thing , the guy gave it back a few weeks later , said it was too hard .
He would rather sit in front of a machine staring into his cell phone.
 

[Rstewart]

I can't imagine that mentality.  As soon as I saw CAM software, I wanted to learn everything possible.  Just wish I had a 5 axis to play with, never really learned those paths, as I have no way to use them lol.

[CNCAppsJames]

"I want to learn..."

99% of the time it means show me the Easy Button. I'll waste the time on 100 to find the 1. It's getting harder and harder to find the 1 these days. They all talk about wanting to earn THE money but when it comes to putting in the effort BEFORE hand... not interested nearly all the time. No biggie, their failure to step up and be men, failure to step up and do the hard stuff just makes us more valuable each and every year.

Wages aren't nearly as stagnant as people's desire to better themselves.

[Here's Johnny!]

"I want to learn..."

99% of the time it means show me the Easy Button. I'll waste the time on 100 to find the 1. It's getting harder and harder to find the 1 these days. They all talk about wanting to earn THE money but when it comes to putting in the effort BEFORE hand... not interested nearly all the time. No biggie, their failure to step up and be men, failure to step up and do the hard stuff just makes us more valuable each and every year.

Wages aren't nearly as stagnant as people's desire to better themselves.

We hired a new employee and I gave them an In-House professional training  manual and they never turned a page on it. They wanted to have some time off to "go to training"....

You only get out of a career what you put into it IMHO. Almost always hard work pays off in spades.

I keep telling the younger generation you have to trot with the turkeys before you can soar with the eagles.

[CNCAppsJames]

I programmed sample and school parts for 3 YEARS before I got to do it in a shop for real. [size=200]3 YEARS!!![/size]

I'm glad it took that long. I felt Like I had achieved something. I had to prove myself for another 2 after that before I was able to do it mostly full time, and it was my job title.

  entitled snivelers  

[gcode]

I programmed sample and school parts for 3 YEARS before I got to do it in a shop for real.

My first CAM system was a package called Anicam 1.0.
I bought the software and computer from Machining Time Savers for $350 cash in 1984
It ran on an NEC computer, 13" 4 color monitor, no mouse, two 8" floppies drives 64k of ram
and a stack of manuals 18" high.
There was no internet and no customer support and it kicked my ass.
It took me 6 months of late nights before I was making chips with that software

[byte]

I programmed sample and school parts for 3 YEARS before I got to do it in a shop for real.

My first CAM system was a package called Anicam 1.0.
I bought the software and computer from Machining Time Savers for $350 cash in 1984
It ran on an NEC computer, 13" 4 color monitor, no mouse, two 8" floppies drives 64k of ram
and a stack of manuals 18" high.
There was no internet and no customer support and it kicked my ass.
It took me 6 months of late nights before I was making chips with that software

Not gonna lie that's bad-ass

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

Mastercam replied to this tweet of mine. Pretty cool. This video was made appr. 1 year ago. I designed and programmed it using Mastercam. The critical parting surfs were from scanned data that I brought into SolidWorks and then using a 3rd party add-on called nPowerSurfaces, which created the needed surfs from mesh data (part had to fit vehicle like a glove...successful project - parts are selling)

[media]https://twitter.com/i/status/1377746454115184647">https://twitter.com/i/status/1377746454115184647[/media]

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

^^^ The cardboard at the sides came in handy when I did the main roughing, using a 1" flat EM. Hot, thick chips were flying...

[pmartin]

I was the night shift setup man where I work, writing lathe programs using a shop PC and a calculator. This was NOT okay with the lathe programmer who thought that I was angling for his job (I was not) Anyway, as long as I was making good parts management wasn't going to fire me. I happened to find a complete seat of Mastercam packed away out of sight, the programmer used Smartcam and wasn't ever going to switch. So, without permission I installed and taught myself Mastercam (V3.something) and started writing programs. That act led to my being offered the position of Milling programmer.