First Day To Mastercam ?

[mtnmike]

Tonight is my first time to mastercam. I am a very intermidiate programmer. I am familiar with surfcam and now I am gonna be using mastercam. This is my first ?. and what is the difference of mill and design? obviously I know the diff from lathe, but I dont know what U would use design for???? Thanks, I am excited to start learning MASTERCAM!! MTNMIKE!!

[pip]

Basicly, Design is just the CAD part of mastercam.

As it says on the tin, it is for designing your part, but not for programming it..

[pip]

Also welcom to the forum.

Excelent place to ask questions and get answers.

[mtnmike]

What is TIN?

[mtnmike]

Would U mind giving me an example of when you would use design and when U would use Mill?? I would think you would just use mill all the time. But I am the rookie!! lol. And I hope there isnt ever any stupid ?? Thanks man!!

[mchin-pilot]

Tin means the product package. ( a bit European I suppose....)

 

Treat Design/Mill as 1 Mastercam. You draw lines,circles,surfaces,solids,edit etc,that happens in the Design module, when you select a machine you enter into Mill module.Easy!

 

Have fun exploring MC, it is similar to Surfcam just needs to know where is what.

 

Oke

[Storkman]

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I would think you would just use mill all the time.

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yup, if you program also. you can buy a seat of just design alot cheaper if you don't need to program.

[Guest]

Mike,

 

Welcome, my suggestion would be to contact your reseller. A basic class would do you wonders for getting a grasp on the Mastercam interface and how many features are actually supposed to work.

 

Good luck and continued learning

 

[Jack Neelands™]

Welcome to the forum

 

Hope you werent up all night

[mtnmike]

I get it! WoW! This seems like it is pretty cool. Thank You so much for the replies! And JPARIS, I do plan on taking a begining course to get familiar with interface and sorts. Thanks again all! I be around!!

[Rob @ Target Machine]

mtnmike :

 

Your reseller has awesome, yet expensive classes to learn all that Mastercam has to offer.

 

If you don't have the bucks, streaming teacher or eapprentice might be to your liking.

 

Alot cheaper, but not quite as good as the intermediate to expert classes available from your reseller.

 

Here is a link to a nice CD tutorial---- Tips for Manufacturing

 

JP knows what he is talking about..so listen.........!

 

 

If you have any problems or questions, you know where we are......Aside from that you could always contact your local "American Honkeytonk Bar Association", if you know what I mean.

 

Welcome to the forum and good luck with your seat of Mastercam.

 

I have been using Mastercam since version 6 and I am very happy with it......I CAN'T WAIT FOR X4!!!

[Jayson Kramer]

Mike welcome aboard.

[Rob @ Target Machine]

[hijack on]

 

Jay ....nice to see you in the E-Mastercam forum.

I'm used to seeing you in the CNC Zone.

 

[/hijack off]

[iowajim62]

Welcome Mike alot of knowledge available here.

The question mark ? on the various toolbars and pages throughout Mastercam are a very useful self help tool. Whereever you are in the software when you click a ? will open Mastercam Help for that topic. Very Cool

 

Yeah Jay nice to see you over here instead of always being on CNC Zone

[Jayson Kramer]

Thanks all , but how do you think some of you got here. you found me on the Zone and said we need to get out of the Twilight Zone and see what is this Emastercam.com Zone jay speaks of.

 

I check this board every day. we have the best people here handling all the questions. not like the beginning when there was just a few of us answering all the questions.

 

this is still the best place on the Net to find answers for everything about what we do NOT just MC.

[Thad]

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The question mark ? on the various toolbars and pages throughout Mastercam are a very useful self help tool. Whereever you are in the software when you click a ? will open Mastercam Help for that topic.

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While you're there, don't forget to click the "Field Definitions" tab. It will tell you what each setting does.

 

Thad

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Myself I don't go to the Ad Zone. It's too darn annoying every two posts to see a freaking ad. I think I've been in there like 10 times ever. Just too annoying.

 

Welcome mtnmike. I hope you find this place as helpful as as most of us do.