https://cimquesttv.wistia.com/medias/huenz8g2og?embedType=async&seo=false&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 OptiRough Rest Roughing Enhancements - Mastercam 2023 In this week’s 2 Minute Tuesday, we examine an exciting upgrade to the OptiRough Rest Roughing Enhancements in Mastercam 2023. Rest material now supports enhanced stock awareness in the Z-axis.
An integrated CAD/CAM system is one that houses both computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing functionalities within one platform. Basic math will tell you that researching, choosing, and installing one software system is half the work of researching, choosing, and installing two – and is usually much more cost-effective, too – but the benefits of doing all of your CAD/CAM programming in one interface go so much further. No loss of information when you export from [...]
Reprint from Additive Manufacturing Some say yes and we say no! Additive Manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing are overlapping terms but not synonyms. 3D printing is the operation at the heart of additive manufacturing, just as “turning” or “molding” might be the operation at the heart of a conventional manufacturing process. In a nutshell, 3D printing is one step in an overall additive manufacturing workflow that also includes design, build preparation, postprocessing, business considerations, and [...]
Tools Axis Control from Reference Surface - Mastercam 2023 In this week's 2 Minute Tuesday, we learn how to use a new Tool Axis Control strategy for the multi-axis toolpaths in Mastercam 2023 called Tilt Relative to Reference Surface. This creates the same motion as the Clean Core method without the need to turn on a collision control strategy.
A reprint from Additive Manufacturing New Electric Dirt Bike Is Designed for Molding but Produced Through 3D Printing Cobra Moto’s new all-electric youth motocross bike could not wait for mold tooling. Parts have been designed so they can be molded eventually, but to get the bike to market, the production method now is additive manufacturing. Sean Hilbert, president of Cobra Moto, says manufacturers make a mistake in the way they justify additive manufacturing capability. “We [...]
Mastercam 2023 is full of new, useful tools that can make your day-to-day easier. Here are the top five you need to know. Detecting Undercut Stock When Machining In Mastercam 2023, achieving optimized motion is a matter of turning on a switch. The Dynamic OptiRough and Area Roughing toolpaths can now be aware of undercut stock conditions when rest machining. This results in improvements to the toolpath motion including less air cutting. Consolidating Multiaxis Toolpaths [...]
Reprint from Additive Manufacturing Manufacturing technology supplier Extol has always served customers who are producing polymer parts. Now, it's making some of those parts in-house through 3D printing, providing new options ranging from functional prototyping into bridge production and beyond. As the automakers centered in Detroit have been chasing electrification and faster, more agile product development, a manufacturer on the other side of the state of Michigan has felt a shift in the supply chain [...]
Reprint from Additive Manufacturing The chance to launch a product into the world using additive manufacturing as the initial process delivers important new possibilities and even keeps on delivering advantages far into the product’s life. We are watching additive manufacturing find its place as an accepted and established method for making production parts. What will be the ultimate extent of additive’s share of production? One way to think of this is as a percentage: the [...]
