online courses?

[wildcat99]

Does anyone know of any good online classes for MasterCam, CNC machining, gcode, post processor writing, 5-axis techniques, SolidWorks....or other subjects along these lines?

 

I searched the forum first with no luck on this topic. Thanks for your help.

 

[ 02-17-2003, 01:20 PM: Message edited by: wildcat99 ]

[dhaniel]

look my friend there is more information www.streamingteacher.com about you request if you want to contact me [email protected]

[Guest]

I wonder if wildcat99 has waited the 3 years and 2 months for his answer?

 

[Jeff the haas_guy]

good eye John, good eye

[Thad]

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Mill Level 3 V9.1 MR0105

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The important thing to notice here is that he was following my sticky 3 years ahead of time.

 

Thad

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Dhaniel,

 

Have you actually taken these courses or know of any one who has? How credible or good are they? Seems quite cheap to run such a thing, when my local reseller...we'll just say charges a fair bit more for only a 4 day course...

[dhaniel]

hey MIILING MAN, actually I don´t but I saw the introductions and it looks really great, at ichia rubber we have the MC 9.1 LEVEL3 only, and I´m not an expert yet! but I´m in the road,I think you´re good player with mastercam.

 

regards

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Funny how one forgets about threads they had input on and then they suddenly reappear... strange.

 

All be it, I am still curious if any one has yet taken the streaming teacher course. May be of interest for our shop, just want to make sure something like is work the $$ before investing to much.

[Gary]

Yes, we have been talking about taking the solidworks stuff here, but would love to hear from someone that has actually used the program.

[Zoober]

sCREAMING Teacher (as we call it) is put out by our reseller, and I have mixed emotions. I personally got little out of it, but some of our guys that have less experience with MC (we moved from catia)got a LOT out of it. It really focuses on the basics, which is good. I guess that it depends on current knowledge level of X. The more you know, the less you need screaming teacher (or any other class). But if you are a newb, it is very good and well worth the $$$.

[john W M]

I signed up for 90 days of Streaming Teacher when I first got Mastercam X. Found it very helpful. My only previous experience was with MC5 so it was a big jump for me. Also have all the MCX books that are available...helpful but still lacking. Haven't found the magic book with all the answers. The forum is a big help...Lightning John to the rescue.

[cadcam]

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Haven't found the magic book with all the answers.

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Sorry Tex , This is the case for alott of people as there really is no such pbook. you will get some thing from all the books that is for sure but one magic book NO.

[Steve Arteman]

Jwm,

If someone were to write a majic book what would you like to see???

[Zoober]

um..........magic?

[john W M]

Steve,

If this book is to be truly magic I should be able to put it under my pillow at night and know everything in it by morning. It needs to be titled "Everything You Will Ever Need to Know About Mastercam".

[DC Gorn]

I used Streaming teacher to Solidwork training. I thouhgt it was good. I think its a big advantage to have 2 monitors or 2 PCs and follow along in your software as they do it. You can move at your own speed pause and rewind when needed. Also while you are signed up you can use it as a reference.

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

So, these videos that you watch, are they downloaded or just streamed? I know I will get smacked for that since it's called 'streaming', but the question still remains, are you left with nothing at the end or can you download the course vid's for future reference?

[john W M]

SMACK...SMACK

[john W M]

smack...smack

 

you get to download the drawings...nothing else.

[Steve Zirtzman]

wildcat99,

This forum is the best online Mastercam course you will find.

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Thank you for the smacking. Feels good, Baby! Just jokes

[Bobkat]

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“... are you left with nothing at the end”

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WOW ! .... How can anyone that has ever paid to attend a conference, or listen to a lecture, come away with “Nothing at the end”.

Especially if they took notes!

 

I have recently crossed paths with several users that subscribed to streamingteacher.

They all seemed to regard each video as not only an example, but a lecture.

All of them had very favorable comments.

 

The most common that I heard included:

.... videos not only show how to do something but why.

.... They could stop rewind and replay sections of a video.

.... They could practice along with the video.

.... New Videos are added as the software changes.

 

A big consideration for us choosing Mastercam, was the availability of support, and the variety of learning resources.

Mastercam’s dominance in the community colleges in our area, access to user forums like this one, a variety of published books, CD’s,

and now streaming videos, all of these factors made Mastercam the obvious choice.

 

We all learn in different ways.

There are those of us that can read the manuals, what’s new docs, the posts in this excellent forum, and from that, connect the dots as to how that info can apply to our jobs.

There are also those that do better by seeing and hearing it.

 

Streaming videos that can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection ... plus the content grows with the software ...

One more valuable link in this awesome support chain for how we do our jobs.

 

After being exposed to information ... I could never feel like I was “left with nothing at the end”

[thoskins]

Could you use windows Media encoder to do a screen capture while you were watching these videos. If you could then you would have a record of everything that you did. I know I am starting to use it to make

training videos for my new guy. I haven't got very far yet but it looks very promising.