Mastercam Presentation

[Gail Plush / Amcast Automotive]

I'm supposed to put together a presentation on all the wonderful things Mastercam has done for our department (i.e. justify the expenditure). A couple of requests:

 

Does anyone know of any routine that continually rotates a part? Kind of presentation opener.

 

Also, just general input would be appreciated. I already have quite a bit, but i wouldn't mind some suggestions.

 

 

Gail

[CAM]

once you have your solid model or mastercam drawing on the screen,hit the end button on your keypad and it will rotate the drawing

[CAM]

once you have your solid model or mastercam drawing on the screen,hit the end button on your keypad and it will rotate the drawing

[P_Scott]

gplush,

 

Just press the "End" key on the keyboard and watch the motion begin. If it's too fast however, you may want to try to do it with a shaded surface or solid part. To stop it, press "End" again. Another little demo technique is to start Verify on a large surface toolpath part and just let it it run from the Isometric viewpoint. In the words of my sister-in-law's electric Darth Vader bank: "Impressive. 'Skirhh - Huhhh' Most impressive."

[RickG]

I think I like the verify better. You can control the speed there and let it cut the part from solid!

[Allan Brown]

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Does anyone know of any routine that continually rotates a part?

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Try this on your lathe:

 

G97 S1000 M3

 

just kidding...

[Hardmill]

Webby the comedian

Too funny

 

 

PEACE

[Brendan P]

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Try this on your lathe:

 

G97 S1000 M3

 

just kidding...

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I love it!

Gotta have a webby with a sick sense of humor like us others!!!

 

Also if you have a simple 2D drawn lathe part with a bunch of operations,go into op manager,select all op's,right click in manager and click on 'stock view',you can cycle thru all the op's and it will have a solid appearance.

Pretty cool thing that some don't know about.

[chris m]

AAAhhh; the dog-and-pony show....

 

2 things that I've used in the past to make the 'business' types feel fuzzy about Mastercam:

 

1) I have a 3-setup milled aluminum adapter flange that I programmed completely by hand before we got Mastercam and then reprogrammed with Mastercam a year or so later. I'd show them the part, the big pile of sketches, layouts, calculations, etc that I did to program it on paper and say 'it took me 7 days of continuous work to get this part into the machine without the software' then I'd show them the MC verify and say 'I rook me 4 hours to reprogram it with Mastercam; as a bonus, the part comes out better, the cycle time is shorter, and even radical revisions don't require another week's work...'

 

2) I have a proven job file from one of my machines and say 'OK, that machine is down and we need to ship that job tomorrow; in 2 minutes I can have a proven, bulletproof program ready for another machine and we never miss a beat. Without Mastercam it could easily take hours to reformat the program for a different machine, control, etc.'

 

These things are important to us and obviously relate to MC vs PencilCAM [which was all we had before] but I can unequivocally state the Mastercam has increased our part quality, decreased cycle times, reduced crashes and hasty modifications required by cleance problems, reduced in-control editing, and made out operators FAR more confident when tunning first-time jobs than they ever were before.

 

Good luck

 

C