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20 05, 2024

Using the Mastercam Trim to Plane Feature

By |2024-05-20T08:29:06-04:00May 20th, 2024|Categories: Mastercam, Tech Tips|0 Comments

This blog post will explore the Mastercam Trim to Plane solid feature. Solid manipulation is important to understand when machining from a solid. There are all kinds of reasons that you may want to do this. The most obvious reason would be if you are creating a solid and need to trim a feature from a generic shape. You may also want to remove certain features from a solid to better control toolpath motion. No [...]

15 04, 2024

Mastercam Drill Change at Point

By |2024-04-15T09:43:14-04:00April 15th, 2024|Categories: Mastercam, Tech Tips|0 Comments

Mastercam includes a feature in the Drill toolpath that lets you edit toolpath motion for any single selected entity in that operation. Typically when using Drill, and working with a solid, you can use the Calculate incremental values from holes or line option. This allows you to have multiple depths in a single operation. When you only have wireframe geometry this can be a little trickier to do. Using change at point, you can adjust [...]

8 04, 2024

Using the Mastercam Zip2Go Feature

By |2024-04-03T09:23:55-04:00April 8th, 2024|Categories: Mastercam, Tech Tips|0 Comments

In this post we will explore the Mastercam Zip2Go feature, how it's helpful, and how to create one. A Zip2Go or Z2G file is a file created by Mastercam’s Zip2Go wizard. This file allows you to easily consolidate the files necessary for sharing programs with others. For example, if you have an issue with a tool while creating or using it, you may have to share a tool library. If you have an issue with [...]

4 03, 2024

Import 2D PDF Files With Mastercam 2024

By |2024-03-04T08:27:46-05:00March 4th, 2024|Categories: Mastercam, Tech Tips|0 Comments

This blog post will explain how to import 2D PDF files into Mastercam 2024. To do this, first create a viewsheet of the part and save it as a bookmark. This will come in handy later. Next, select the Merge option under the File tab, switch the file type to .pdf, and select the pdf file to merge in. Next, set the levels to merged file levels and hit the green check. The image below [...]

26 02, 2024

Understanding Mastercam Multi-Threading

By |2024-02-26T08:22:15-05:00February 26th, 2024|Categories: Mastercam, Tech Tips|0 Comments

This blog post will cover Mastercam Multi-threading and how it can accelerate your toolpath creation. To understand multithreading, we first must know what a processor is and how that processor uses cores and threads. The processor is what carries out the individual tasks assigned by the application. Early computers only could only process one instruction at a time, because they had one core. Now, processors can have multiple cores and each core can carry out [...]

19 02, 2024

Working With the Mastercam Analyze Entity Tool

By |2024-02-19T08:28:33-05:00February 19th, 2024|Categories: Mastercam, Tech Tips|0 Comments

Mastercam has multiple tools for measuring and gathering information from your geometry. Some of these tools also include additional functions like the Mastercam Analyze Entity tool. This article will explore how to use this tool. You can access the Analyze Entity utility by selecting Home/Analyze/Utility from the main menu. Alternatively, you can also launch it from the right-click menu, or use the F4 key to launch it at any time. After selecting the entities, you [...]

21 12, 2023

The Various Control X Measure Functions

By |2023-12-21T08:29:55-05:00December 21st, 2023|Categories: 3D Scanning, 3d Scanning & Reverse Engineering, Tech Tips|0 Comments

There are many different measurement functions that can be used in Control X Professional. This post will explain what they are and how to use them. We will use the airfoil example above to illustrate the various Control X measure functions available. In the menu below you will find a list of the measurement tools that are available within Control X. These all apply to just the MEAsured data. The Measure Distance function allows you [...]

4 12, 2023

Using the Mastercam 2023 Drill Toolpath

By |2023-12-04T08:45:20-05:00December 4th, 2023|Categories: Mastercam, Tech Tips|0 Comments

This blog post will explore how to use the Mastercam 2023 Drill toolpath. This new toolpath will allow you to edit toolpath motion for any single selected entity in that operation. Typically, when using Drill and working with a solid, you can use the Calculate incremental values from holes or line option. This allows you to have multiple depths in a single operation. When you only have wireframe geometry this can be a little trickier [...]

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