I am currently in my second year studying manufacturing tech. I have been playing around with CAD/Mastercam for quite a long while, but am just now learning to actually use it as is expected in industry. From my understanding, Mastercam is no longer going to be required... A little birdy told me something along the lines of the school not wanting to cover the licensing fees - so they're switching to Fusion Anywho, my instructor is still offering extra credit if we want to do the Mastercam work anyways. However after turning in my first few assignments, he got back to me today saying that he can't open up the files because he has an older version of Mastercam? From the little research I've done - it seems like this is one way they try to keep you purchasing updates...very Apple-ish of them.... I'm wondering if anybody has any idea of a workaround? For example, is there a way I save with backward compatibility? Or perhaps there's another filetype I can save as that would still keep my toolpaths/machine setups? I can't be the first to run in to this problem... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Thank you very much. I am new to Mastercam, and this is a fantastic resource. Coming from Solidworks, I thought it would be more intuitive but I have been having a bit of a rough time figuring out some of the basics - this has been a huge help. Thanks again.