If you're looking to attend some in-person Mastercam training classes in March, Cimquest offers a great variety of classes at our various office locations. Our classrooms generally hold a maximum of 8 students and we strongly believe that our small class sizes are essential for maximum instructor/student interaction to ensure greater student success. All software enrollment classes are taught on the latest version. Here is what's on our schedule for March. Please use the button below for more details and to register. Training Details & Registration  

The energy industry encompasses both renewable and nonrenewable energy sourcing and the manufacturing of the parts both need. For renewable energy resources, like hydropower and solar power, these parts could be turbine blades, brackets for mounting solar panels, and more. The nonrenewable energy industry is dominated by oil and gas, which requires components like forgings and castings. Currently, the oil and gas industry is recovering from the pandemic at a breakneck pace. Travel and work are resuming worldwide, and oil prices remain high, a boon for the industry. Deloitte reports that oil and gas companies are focusing on financial health and debt reduction in response to their COVID losses, which means most are reevaluating how they make or buy their parts. Renewable energy sources are growing as well. The current administration in the U.S. is supporting sustainable infrastructure and actively trying to fill green jobs as the workforce returns. With this near unprecedented growth of both types of energy and a wide-open competitive market, many manufacturers that make parts for the energy industry are reconsidering their production process. Most are already using CAD/CAM software paired with powerful CNC machines, but the truly successful shops will be aggressively optimizing their machining. Why does the [...]

CAD software, or computer-aided design software, is the tool that designers, engineers, and programmers use to model parts virtually. With CAD, you can create models from scratch, modify and optimize existing models, and even reverse-engineer physical parts. When a shop uses its CAD software efficiently, it can maximize output, part quality, and profits. Direct Modeling The last thing a manufacturer wants to worry about when working with a client’s model is having to go back and forth a hundred times to made edits to the file. Luckily, Direct Modeling allows you to make edits in-situ for any imported model, which eliminates the need to refer back to the original creator of the model. Time that would have been spent playing phone tag or dealing with misunderstandings can be focused on optimizing the part or even on other projects. New to Mastercam 2022: Programmers can graphically edit, move, and copy wireframe geometry simply by double-clicking an entity or by dragging their mouse. Push-Pull direct editing function allows the editing of multiple solid bodies at once by simply dragging geometries with the mouse or by entering a delta value. Users can control mass adjustments to imported assemblies even with no solid history. Solid Disassemble Manufacturers [...]