Mastercam Quickpart 3D

[Bill Watt@PM]

We recently added Quickpart to our Version 8 Mill software and are having a difficult time figuring out how to use it. There doesn't seem to be any tutorials or instruction manuals available. Any suggestions on how to get up to speed with this software?

[Rick Damiani]

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We recently added Quickpart to our Version 8 Mill software and are having a difficult time figuring out how to use it. There doesn't seem to be any tutorials or instruction manuals available. Any suggestions on how to get up to speed with this software?

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I'd suggust contacting your education reseller for general 'what is this and why do I need it' kind of questions. There are some workbooks that you can use with Quickpart. Your education reseller can get them for you.

 

You will need to ensure that you are installing it onto a MasterCAM v8.1.1 system, not v8 or v8.1, or it may not work correctly. If you don't have v8.1.1, you can get that CD from your re-seller as well.

[Brendan P]

I have never heard of "quick part".

Could someone please explain what it does?

[Grant]

I'm with BUCKET - WTF?

[cadcam]

Go look here: www.mastercamedu.com

[Rick Damiani]

Quickpart is an add-on for MasterCAM educaitonal customers. It exposes a limited sub-set of MasterCAM fuctionality, enableing students to easily produce any of a pre-defined set of projects.

 

Many high school shop classes use Quickpart as a fairly simple and safe introduciton to CNC programming, or as part of a modular technology curriculum where the goal is to get an overview of the design and manufacturing process rather than build a set of particular skills. In addition to taking a guided approach to programming a particular project, it also offers instruction at key points of the process, explaning many of the basic things you need to do to get your code to run. As a training tool, its actually quite useful.

[Jack Mitchell]

My take on Mastercam's or In-House's Quickpart is that it's meant to give a junior cad/cam student an immediate result; as in a grade seven student.

 

I look upon this as a very simplistic task for someone to create a basic workpiece; almost everything is prompted through a slick user interface.

 

I am not knocking the project; I’m just stating my personal view.

 

Regards