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June 2018
Mastercam 2019 Rollouts Under Way
This week we are in the middle of three Mastercam 2019 Rollout Meetings. We kicked off the exciting events on Tuesday at CNC Software (the home of Mastercam) in Tolland, CT. What better place to show off the newest features of the software! Today, we are continuing the Mastercam 2019 previews at our Portsmouth, NH Rollout and tomorrow we’ll be doing it all over […]
Mastercam 2018 Seam Control
There is a new enhancement to the positional transform in Mastercam 2018 called Roll. Seam control integrates a new dynamic gnomon and an on-screen seam position indicator to help make your results more predictable.
On the screen below you can see two lines of text that need to be engraved on the outside of the part around the 12 o’clock position.
Jewelry Customization with 3D Printing
Founded in 1933, leading German wedding ring manufacturer egf Manufaktur is shortening the feedback loop between designer and customer tenfold, blending a custom software solution with desktop digital fabrication to create a modern, highly personalized customer experience.
“Every wedding ring is individualized and made-to-order. They’re more important than any other jewelry product in showing the customer’s individual ideas,” said Nick-Maximilian Binder, assistant to the managing director at egf, and leader of the on-site 3D printing project.
“That’s […]
May 2018
Making Additive Manufacturing Sustainable and Inclusive
Rize recently hosted a live Webinar called “How to Make Additive Manufacturing Sustainable and Inclusive.” The goal of this webinar was to help users of additive manufacturing better understand how to drive increased sustainability and inclusivity in their manufacturing operations and why that’s so important. The discussion focused on how Rize’s patented Augmented Polymer Deposition (APD) hybrid process enables sustainability and inclusivity by providing the […]
Don’t Lose Your Valuable Mastercam Investment
With the upcoming release of Mastercam 2019, you will no longer be able to update or receive support for your copy of Mastercam X7. If you update now, you have the opportunity for dramatic savings and revolutionary, industry-changing new technologies!
Mastercam X7 was released nearly six years ago. Although it still gets the job done, you are missing out on dramatic advances across the entire Mastercam family, including the breakthrough Dynamic Motion and […]
Rego-Fix PowRgrip Tool Holders
As we continued our training and application experience here at Cimquest to apply Mastercam Dynamic toolpaths, we ran into several issues, some big ones being the ability to hold a tool when power cutting and maximizing tool life when speed cutting.
First let’s explain what power and speed cutting is. Power cutting is cutting […]