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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Enhancing Education
CNC Software, Inc., developers of Mastercam, the world’s leading CAD/CAM software, has announced that they have become a member of the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center Research and Development (OMIC R&D). OMIC R&D is a collaboration of national and international manufacturing companies and Oregonbased research universities who combine their knowledge, expertise, and resources to find innovative, applied solutions to the challenges facing manufacturing, while creating new opportunities for the future development of manufacturing.
Mastercam is CAD/CAM software designed for innovation, streamlined precision, and efficiency in manufacturing. The software empowers designers and NC programmers across a spectrum of industries, delivering manufacturing solutions for milling, turning, wire EDM, router programming, Swiss machining, plasma cutting, lasers, and 3D design and drafting.
More people use Mastercam than any other CAM software, from secondary school through university instruction and one-person job shops to multinational manufacturing conglomerates. Mastercam users form the world’s strongest CAD/CAM community, pushing product development, machining innovation, and manufacturing advancements on a global scale.
“I am very excited that Mastercam has become a member of OMIC R&D,” said Stas Mylek, Partnership Program Manager, CNC Software, Inc. “We immediately began discussing opportunities for Mastercam to engage in opportunities to introduce students to our premier programming language. This collaboration also aligns well with our dedication to research and development aimed at manufacturing technology. Our partnership will most definitely play a part in setting the tenor for the future of manufacturing.”
OMIC R&D is continually creating, expanding, and deepening its understanding of workforce needs of the manufacturing sector to inspire and more effectively equip the next generation of industry workers and leaders with the skills and abilities they will need to change the face of manufacturing.
Craig Campbell, Executive Director of OMIC R&D said, “We are extremely excited to have Mastercam as a member. CNC Software, Inc. will provide us with the ability to add uniform programming language that we can use on our broad range of machines, as well as opportunities in training and workforce development due to their investment in that area.”
Channel Changes to Better Serve Educational Customers
Mastercam’s US industrial channel will now also serve its educational customers throughout the country. This move brings the company’s global distribution channel into alignment and supports efforts to bring educational customers and industrial manufacturers closer together for mutual benefit.
Mastercam Resellers outside of the United States have always serviced both industrial and educational customers within their regions, so fully committing to that model in the U.S. brings the channel into alignment worldwide. CNC Software has successfully tested this approach domestically for many years in states such as Ohio, Michigan, and Iowa. Now, the company has moved all states under the same model.
With this change, educational institutions gain the benefit of greater connection with the industrial network of manufacturers using Mastercam. They gain direct access to the industrial channel’s deep knowledge of the Mastercam product, advanced technical support, post integration, training, and onsite assistance. Additionally, the Resellers form a much-needed conduit between educational and industrial customers. This connection will enable better partnerships between schools and their local industry, which can lead to more effective and successful job placement for students.
“Our industrial Mastercam Resellers provide a valuable connection between manufacturing firms and educational institutions tasked with preparing students to join the workforce, and they have the talent and expertise to support both. We identified this channel realignment as a way for us to help U.S. schools better prepare students with strong technical skills in CAD/CAM and CNC machining, to meet the immediate needs of industry,” shared Doug Nemeth, Director of Sales for the Americas, Mastercam.
The company maintains an education department dedicated to supporting the educational market through sponsorships and involvement with organizations such as WorldSkills, SkillsUSA, Project MFG, National Robotics League, First Robotics, NASA HUNCH, and SAE International, as well as a partnership with TITANS of CNC Academy. The department also manages the Mastercam Educators Alliance, connecting instructors with each other, training opportunities, and subject matter experts in support of teaching excellence.
“This is the next step in Mastercam’s commitment to engaging with the next generation of CAM users,” said Peter Mancini, Education Product Manager, Mastercam. “We consider the needs of schools and educators teaching Mastercam in all of our business and software development decisions, so that students receive the skills they need to fill rewarding jobs in industry—and industrial users gain a supply of skilled workers for a growing number of vacancies.”
Customer and Industry Input Drives Development
Mastercam 2022 increases machining productivity and reduces overall production costs with faster and more flexible multiaxis improvements, powerful new roughing tools for 2D users, advances in modeling, enhanced intelligence and automation, and much more.
Many of the advancements in Mastercam 2022 are directly driven by Mastercam users and shops. Feedback from Public Beta releases, shop visits, customer surveys, and consultation with our expert industry partners create the practical, shop-driven focus that helps ensure Mastercam users’ success.
According to Mastercam President and CEO Meghan West, “Mastercam is developed by listening to our users and creating solutions for their problems. We adapt to changing needs to ensure that the customer experience is the best it can be as we continue to innovate for improved automation, efficiency, connectivity, and precision. From job setup through job completion, you can depend on our technology to empower productivity.”
Improvements include: » OptiRough Toolpath for 2D Users: The 3D High Speed Dynamic
OptiRough toolpath is now available for all Mill and Router product levels. This allows users to machine very large cut depths with a bidirectional cutting strategy to remove the maximum amount of material with the minimum number of stepdowns.
Dynamic OptiRough allows you to create a single toolpath to machine a part, instead of creating multiple 2D operations to achieve the same goal. The toolpath is collision aware of the part, and for complex machining, the toolpath can also be aware of the tool holder. » Faster, more flexible multiaxis programming: As more shops seek the benefits of a single setup, multiaxis cutting strategy,
Mastercam 2022 adds new techniques and strategies such as the
Unified Multiaxis toolpath which allows you to select multiple pieces of input geometry to generate the toolpath pattern. Using those geometry choices, the toolpath picks the best algorithm to calculate the path. Multi-pass on Deburr toolpaths supports
flat chamfered and rounded edges which gives the user added flexibility, allowing the Deburr toolpath to create a quality surface finish on larger chamfered or radiused edges. » Modeling advances: Mastercam 2022 introduces powerful mesh creation and editing capabilities that deliver a new class of modeling tools, including the ability to reconstruct models from scanned data. Being able to directly edit wireframe geometry without interacting with the dialog box speeds up design and modification work. And the Overflow UV function allows you to replace multiple surfaces with inconsistent flows with a single surface for flowline toolpaths. You can also simplify surfaces for general modeling. Overflow UV generates a single unified surface with a desired UV flow on a connected set of surfaces. » Enhanced intelligence and automation: A suite of system-wide enhancements helps automate tasks and speed your workflow.
New automatic region chaining uses a “smart” approach to auto-select logical chained areas. Holemaking from imported solids is faster as Mastercam will now automatically extract appropriate information and pre-populate your programming options. Even tool imports have been made more intelligent as Mastercam will infer more tool properties from an incoming tool CAD model.
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