your age?

[BernieT]

WOW, a lot of talent here in this forum, and everybody still a very young age. Speaks well for the future. I'm 64 years young and plan to work another 30-40 years at least!! This Mastercam machining is too much fun!!

Jay, I started making molds for investment casting in 1973, and in between golf club heads still make several molds a year.

James, can anyone else use your 'Mastercam Enthusiast' signature?? I like it!

Bernie Tautz aka BerTau

[limitless creativity]

40 years here, act like 25 tho, started back in 78", first machine was a bridgeport BTC they called this monster. Been in all types of shops, setup, program just as many machines, been up and down the ladder and now on the Machine tool side. Still wishing to start my own business. Maybe in the next few years.

Mike

[cadcam]

Bertau, I too have made wax tool for the golf industry in the past.

It has been a while sense i had to go in the shop and make a wax tool from scratch.

but sure was fun.

i all so worked at a wax foundry for about two years.

Welcome to the team.

Or should you be saying that to me.

One of us has been at longer then the other.

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jay/ aka cadcam

Precision Programming

cnc programming &

Predator & mastercam reseller

email: [email protected]

web: www.ppcadcam.com

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I have not trademarked it so do as you please.

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James M.

Mastercam Enthusiast

[Mark H]

Bill asked...

quote:

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I was just a little curious as to how old most of us cad/cam people are in this forum?

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Was that a physical or mental age?

Well physically I'm 21 years old (and 156 months) Been programming with Mastercam for about 5 years - started with V5.5

Mentally, well, I wont go there...

[Guy]

Hey you old machinist...need any youngster...

I'm looking for a job anywhere else. Very boring up here.

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Guillaume Côté

Hexco inc, Montreal Canada

Stainless steel specialist

[lynnz]

I am 47. Started as a machinist in 72, then took on a patternmaker job in 78 and am still doing it. Been using Mastercam since v5. We used Smartcam before that...yuck! I used to create surfaces within Mastercam, but in 97 started using Solidworks making my life a lot easier.

Lynn

[Keith Graydon]

Greets,

I'm 45 and have been making parts all my life. I recall being <5 yrs. old and assembeling a plastic model of a "Huey" helicopter. The kind made recognizable by the Viet Nam war. I guess I'm a visual learner. I looked at the plans. What a concept! I've allways been good with may hands. I think that my high school year books mentions that. Boy, Did that get a lot of giggles from the girls...... But I digress.

I'm married and have 2 wonderful children. Boy 9, girl 7. My son Is a math expert and my daughter is my memory expert. My wife has taught art at the elementary level for the past 16 years. If she had her druthers she would live in the mountains and be a full time potter.

Machining has been in my family for a long time. I 've got a lot of tools from my great-uncle. He worked in the tool room at Browne& Sharp. My Grand father worked at Taft-Pierce. And My Great-grandfather worked in the stock room at Browne & Sharpe, Heh, He must've had arms like Popeye!!! One Uncle was an Extrusion die expert and another uncle was The MAN at blind hole grinding and crush grindind. My dear departed father like to fix antique chairs using simple tools. Like a pocket knife and a glass scraper. Not these Mega-bucks machine tools. Anyway, I've all ways been in the Scientific/Prototype field of machining. But I've made my share of tractor parts!

Follow the link in my sig to go to where i've worked for the past 15 years. Cool stuff, there.

Been with Mastercam since Ver. 3.1 and many other systems before that. Prime Medusa, ComputerVision.........

-Keith

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CNC Specialist

Sarnoff Corporation

Princeton, NJ 08512

USA

[KMaynard]

35 Here.. Went to the Greater Lawrence Voc for high school from 79-83 and started Co-op in 82 ..been doin it ever since .. worked in defense until 11 years ago ..then I moved into Semi ..I now work in a model shop ..

[Mike Geary]

38 and I started when I was 37, however I've run machines for over 20 years!

[Bob]

I'm 56 and in this type of work for about 32 years now. Most of them in the medical field (about 8 at a metal test lab as the shop boss). In my line you never see the same job a second time and a production run is about 3 or 4 parts that may change from one to the next. Mastercam and CNC have made things that I could only have dreamed about previously a reality. It shure beats manual setups with indexing heads and the like!!!

[Toby]

I'm 32 and have been machining in the cnc environment for 15+ years now. My dabblings with M/C started in the late 80,s (vs2-3?) and really kicked into high gear around vs4-5 where I have been using its awsome abilities ever since.

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Toby Baughman

Programming Supervisor

Saint Gobain Semicon Group Inc.

Vs8.1.1 LvL3 Mill + solids

[hawkeye]

30 yrs old. Been at it since 1990, right out of high school.

Started out building an office for the company I work for now. I put the form up and started to pour the concrete. To my terror, the back wall of the form fell and concrete ran out all over the place. Luckily, the boss was there. He jumped on hte tractor and rammed the back wall some what into place and the slab was saved though one side is slightly askew. To my surprise, he ut me to work in the shop after that. Been here ever since. Been using Mastercam since v.5

[TOOLDEV]

My Birth certificate say's 43, I don't beleive it though.

Educated as a toolmaker in Austria

I immigrated to South africa in 1977. After working as a toolmaker for 10 years (building clamping jigs for the brake industry)I started My own business building mainly Clamping fixtures for CNC's. I Immigrated to Canada 6 Years ago started a Machine shop and stayed away from manual machines completely. Now I still design and build special purpose clamping jigs, and do all sorts of custom machining.

since working with CAD CAM I have found a new love for My Job that stay's exciting with all the new new developments.

[mario]

I am 30 years old and I began with with wire 6 and now I am with wire and milling 8.1 a lot of improvement I live in montreal and I speak a litle bit english.

I work with mastercam about 5 years

5 years for wire edm and 1 1/2 of milling

chao

thank you !

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[biss03]

i'm 25 years of age. Working in a machine shop is all i've ever known. Started at the age of 17 running CNC machines. I stumbled upon mastercam my second semester of college(version 5.5). my shop instructor showed it to me one day and i was hooked. unfortunately, they only offer 2 semesters of it. Actually, i taught it for one semester when, God rest his soul, the instructor passed away. anyways, I was still working for the same company as a operator/setup man, and presented Mastercam to them when they were debating which software to pursue. So when they decided on Mastercam, naturally I was chosen to take off with it. I've been at the same company for all the years i've been in this field doing mainly production run parts.

[ERIC14779]

I,m turning 34 this month.... wow where did my youth go... now I have a lot of responsability 1 wife, 3 kids (2 girls 7 & 9) and 1 boy 5.

I grew up in a family owned plastics company my dad started it from scratch in 1969. From the time I could hold onto a tool I have been helping/working. In the "old days" we did not have a decent mill or lathe. Just ones we got a salvage prices from other companies. We had to basicly sculpture our molds and punch dies by hand.

In the early 80's we got our first CNC router.... not much just a Techno 3 axis with steppers and with it came MASTERCAM VER. 3.1 YES ver Three..point...one.. It ran in DOS. I had to reboot my computer each time I came out of Windows 3.1 or it would lock up.

Then we bought another Techno router for a job we got in 1983.

In 1989 We bought a used 1970 Monarch VMC 100 for $1,500.00 delevered from Cleveland OH. I proceeded to strip it and put in a AH-HA Design Group CNC retrofit system (took about 3 months)

Thats when I realy started cutting metal with CNC mostly aluminum (for our molds)

then this year we bought a Quintax 5 axis machining center 40 taper 12 HP 60" x 120" x 48"Z... cutting anyting from wood up to and including Aluminum.

currently we are using Ver 8.1.1 with solids. to run all 4 CNC machines (2 Technos, the Monarch and the 5-axis Quintax)

oh I almost forgot that we are also doing a stepper retrofit on a LeBlond 19" tape turn Lathe.

 

[Wallace]

Hi Bill,

I am 34 years old.

CAD user in 1986 (or 1985)... Autocad, Cadkey, Rasna (CAE), Cimatron (CAD/CAM), Solidworks, ...

Long time work in Mastercam Dealer for Brazil; support, show, training, ... and translation all Mastercam software and manuals (Mill, Design, Lathe, Wire, Solids, C-hooks).

Now work in CAD/CAM service shop in Brazil.

Sorry by my wrong english.

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Wallace M. Jr

 

[Scott Bond]

Good Morning

I'm 45

married to the original wife .

3 children with the original mom.

all are bmx riders

I started sweeping in a shop at age 11

with my dad.I was a mold maker and pattern maker for wax investment.Mostly for aero space foundries.

When I started mastercam up for the first time it was the early 1980,s and I belive it was version 1.But I asked Tom S. about it and he said that their was no v1 MC just existed .my first mc time was on a shop pc with two 5 1/4" a drives and then I purchased a new 286 with a color monitor and version 2 was brand new . Anyhow I work in areo space now and also a new category of custermer i like to call

"any body with a check"

 

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Hardway

[This message has been edited by Scott Bond (edited 07-18-2001).]

[Code_Breaker]

I am 56.

 

I started in an extrusion blow mold shop 1990 using MasterCAM 3.xx.

 

I was a member of eMastercam for a few years but lost my password and changed e-mail address. Did not rejoin until this year (2003).

[specv]

IM 24

[Scott Bond]

quote:

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Good Morning

I'm 45

married to the original wife .

3 children with the original mom.

all are bmx riders

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Update 48

[Shady]

I am 37 been using Mastercam for about 1 yr now...been a machinist for about 15 yrs. I was also wondering if I am the only person from the great state of West Virginia to use this forum....if not, then lets here from ya ! How bout them 'EERS !!! ~~~~~Shady

[Jammer™]

I am 33 going on 19........

[Müřlıń®]

I'm 46. Started machining when I was 13 on an engine lathe my dad had in the garage.

 

Been using Mastercam since Ver 6.

Started modeling with a DOS ver of ACAD.......

 

*****cringes at the thought of ACAD*****

 

 

Murlin