Storkman, I have used mastercam for the last four years to do all of my shop's operation prints. I started with Autocad, and the switch was a little rough at first, but I quickly began to favor Mastercam. The only time I use Autocad anymore is to create drawings of tooling or fixtures to go on Setup sheets (which are created in Excel). If they include OLE in Mastercam X, I won't have to use Autocad at all anymore, and I'll be a happy camper. I guess I'm blabbering on, but I've found a way in Mastercam to do everything I need to do, so I say give it a shot.

Hey Scott, Thanks for the help. I do indeed ride BMX. I used to race at Chandler BMX. But now I mostly ride skateparks. BMX is probably the main reason why I'm in this industry. I got interested after reading an article in the BMX'er that mentioned CNC machines. So now I work at a machine shop and I've been asked to be the "parts guy" for a fledgling parts and accessories company. Right now I'm working on a stem design that I hope to make real soon. It's nice to be able to do something I like.

I am making a shop drawing for a new part that we just got in. The print we were provided with is metric and I would like to display both types of units on the dimensions. Is there a way to display both metric and enlish units for the dimensions? I have looked all over the globals menu and I can't find anything. If there is a way to do this could someone please let me know. Or if there isn't is there some kind of shortcut that I could use. Right now it looks like I just have to switch from metric to english config and double dimension. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I might be the youngest, coming in at May, 1982. I guess I'm just a young boy doing a man's job.

As in my other post I would like to see Object Linking and embedding. I would also like to see ellipses work in a similar fashion to autocad.

I am looking for some kind of OLE functionality in Mastercam. Here's what I'm trying to do and why. I make MOT packs for each machining operation that consist of a Drawing (made in Mastercam), a quality/check sheet (Microsoft Excel), a tooling/setup sheet (Microsoft Excel), and a part count sheet (Microsoft Excel). It is sometimes necessary to put a drawing on the check sheet or setup sheet to detail a check, or a specially grinded insert, etc. Up until recently I would preview a hardcopy, then use the "print screen" key on the keyboard to paste the bitmap image to the sheet in Excel. But resizing the image would often result in pixelation or a crappy image. The shop recently purchased Autocad LT wich enables me to make the sketch and copy it directly into Excel. I would like to keep consistency and use Mastercam to make these drawings though, if it's at all possible. I've searched high and low throughout Mastercam and I have been unable to find anything like this, but anyone out there knows about this, please let me know. P.S. If there is no functionality of this type at this point in time, does anyone know of Mastercam's plans to add this in future releases?