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Welcome to the Wiki, here you will find a living database of articles on concepts and uses of Mastercam. The wiki is user driven and may be populated by solutions from the community forum. The idea is that the eMastercam forum is a valuable resource - lets maintain the valued information in a central area so as not to be lost to the ever changing forum threads. Take note that some functionality may be version, or level dependent so ensure you are reading information pertinent to your purchased and installed level and version of Mastercam.

When possible in articles, please try to make note of what versions and levels the article pertains to.

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Post Processor Development Request

Oct 22 2010 05:00 PM | Webby in Post-Processing

How do I submit a request for a Post Processor? The forms below are required for submitting a request to In-House Solutions for post processor development. Please choose the appropriate file for the post processor you are requesting. The request fo...

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Mastercam X7 System Requirements

May 20 2013 07:00 PM | Webby in General Mastercam

CNC Software, the developers of Mastercam have produced a new page to help you ensure your current or future system will be able to run Mastercam X7 based on the types of applications you expect to do.

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Mpmaster Post Processor

Oct 24 2010 08:00 AM | Webby in Post-Processing

Posts are provided by In-House Solutions 'as is' with no warranties, either expressed or implied, that code generated through use of the posts is safe or suitable for your machine tool. Please employ your own established code verification proc...

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What devices can access my eBook?

Jun 10 2011 06:00 AM | Webby in eBooks

Our eBooks can be viewed on up to 3 computers, for example: a desktop, laptop and work computer. When you open a PDF for the first time, it creates an association with that device and counts towards your limit. Official device compatibility list: A...

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Display Issues with X5 on Windows 7

Sep 29 2011 06:08 PM | Tyler Robertson in General Mastercam

I tried searching this out, but don't seem to be using the correct terminology. If the answers to my questions are already out there, please send me in the correct direction. I'm running: X5 (haven't downloaded MU1 yet) Dell T5400 NVIDIA Q...

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Mastercam V9 to X5 Transition Guide

Mar 17 2011 07:00 AM | Webby in General Mastercam

For those of you looking to transition from V9, CNC Software created a video with a few tips for making the switch. You can watch the video in our media section. In addition, for those of you transitioning specifically from V9 to X5, they have create...

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Mplmaster Post Processor

Oct 23 2010 10:00 PM | Webby in Post-Processing

Posts are provided by In-House Solutions 'as is' with no warranties, either expressed or implied, that code generated through use of the posts is safe or suitable for your machine tool. Please employ your own established code verification proc...

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Scale > 1000000000 No Part??

Feb 22 2011 12:00 AM | Tyler Robertson in General Mastercam

This is a hard to reproduce graphics issue that seems to happen randomly, and irregardless of level/product, although it has been more noticeable in lathe files. what occurs is the part geometry seems to disappear and the graphics scale changed to 1,...

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Cannot open Solidworks 2011 Files

Dec 21 2010 11:20 PM | gcode in General Mastercam

Okay, here is an update for guys running 64 bit operating systems that cannot open Solidworks 2011 files. In-house Solutions could not figure why our 64 bit computers would not open the files, however, our 32 bit computers could. I followed all the i...

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Dynamic Mill Feed and Speed Database

Jun 28 2010 09:10 AM | Tyler Robertson in Dynamic Milling

Project by forum member Chris Rizzo - thread: http://www.emasterca...opic=37060&st=0 "Considering dynamic mill is relatively new to mc, and some of us have had great usage of it, (absolute amazing mmr results) what about creating some sort of...

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