Maybe I can help, I am a manufacturing engineering teacher at a high school in London, Ontario Canada. I run a fully fuctional manufacturing course with about 100 students passing thru in any given year. I have CNC equipment/manual lathes/ welding equipment/ sheet metal equipment as well as 6 seats of MasterCam. I found my success lies in the enthusiasm of students, however the teacher is the one who drives this enthusiasm. I have on average from a graduating class about 5 machinist apprentices and 10 mech. manuf. technician / technologists (college level) and 6 students who follow a path in Prof. Engineering. I am also participating in the Skills Canada MasterCam competition this year. I lecture the students and give them guidance as well support in whatever they choose to pursue be it a trade or professional designation. The point I stress with these students is that every job in manufacturing plays a key role in the output of a product as well as contributes to the overall success of our country. It is a constant battle to get funding in these restricted budjetary times. I have to constantly look for new partners willing to help with equipment purchases as well as tooling. Many companies sell me tooling and materials at cost, which helps me tremendously in the delivery of my courses. The Ontario government is realizing the need for technology renewal and has pledged a 90 million dollar intitiative for the province of Ontario. I say cudos to them. Now it's up to the administrators to divy up the cash. I expect to get about $20 000 over the next 3 years. We in Canada realize we have fallen behind in the innovation field and that is why my co-hort and I have started a new course this year called Pre-engineering studio and design, whereby the students 17 of them this year are bound for either college or university programs. The focus of the course is to have them understand the process of a design from concept into production. The complaint we were getting from colleges and universities was that students were not choosing a career they wanted meerly following a path they thought would be exciting. Once they were in the post secondary program they would quit or get discouraged, even worse yet would finish a program and found out they hated it. So we said "Then let's do something about it" this sparked two wonderful relationships, one with The University Of Western Ontario and St. Clair College of applied arts and technology in Windsor Ontario which boasts the new Ford Center For Excellence in Manufacturing. A 39 million dollar facility which by the way is a beautiful state of the art facility http://www.stclairc.on.ca/emcentre/main.html and they do accept foreign students. Anyhow I think I have said enough and will leave it at this: manufacturing is alive and well in my neck of the woods. Regards, Andres Beneteau Manufacturing Teacher John Paul II Catholic Secondary School London, Ontario, Canada [email protected]

Well, I have been successful at this task...you must make sure all ucs's in invetor are set to 0,0,0 and your part orientation is set correctly well the face you want to mill anyway. I found this in both Inventor and Autocad Mech, As well the AutoCad files had to be saved as AutoCad 2000 format.......just a guess ite worked for me.

Hello all, We have a unique problem on our educational network. Students have limited access to resources on our network. Problem is whenever they try get libraries or access configuration files during normal operation of MC9SP1 they get an error. We cannot give them local login to the machine (got in trouble for that) so now Im stuck. Anyone have any suggestions or similar problems? Thanks Andre London, Ontario

Thanks gentleman, I will try all of these suggestions. Yes I am trying to use the engraving option in MC V9 also using the rast2vect option. Thanks

Hello all, My name is Andre Im a teacher in London Ontario using MC9. I have been trying to get student art work into the engraving mode to cut out there art into plastic. Im fine upto where the chaining is done. It seems to chain all of the arcs but it tells me it isn't closed and only machines a small portion of the work. Does anyone have any ideas or workarounds. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Andre