Meet Us at Eastec

If you’re going to Eastec, please keep in mind that the MACDAC staff will be attending the official “Mastercam Meetup” on Wednesday, May 15 from 5 – 7 PM. Come hang out with us, as well as the staff from Mastercam corporate. The Meet Up is taking place right after the show at the Red Room in the Lattitude Restaurant, located right across the street from the show. This is a great opportunity for us to spend some time with you off the trade show floor.

The event is sponsored by Mastercam corporate and if you would like to join us, please register at the link below. Here’s the details:

When: May 15, 5 – 7 PM

Where: Lattitude Restaurant, 1338 Memorial Ave, West Springfield, MA 01089


Register here!

And please don’t forget that MACDAC will be in booths #5537, #1354, and #5249 at Eastec. Please be sure to drop into one of them to say hello.

Mastercam X7 is Released!

It’s here! With dozens of powerful new tools and enhancements, Mastercam X7 is ready to help you make the most of your shop.

If you want to see what X7 has to offer, click on over to http://whatsnew.mastercam.com/ for a quick tour of some of the highlights, or come to our Mastercam LIVE Rollout event on May 23, 2013.

Packages will begin shipping in the coming weeks, but if you’re a current maintenance customer, you can download Mastercam X7 right now at:

http://mastercam.com/Support/Downloads/MastercamX7/Default.aspx#X7

Please contact your local Mastercam Reseller with any questions and happy programming!

Fast and Easy 3D Modeling for Mastercam Users

Join us for a must see webinar!
Thursday, May 9th
9:00am – 9:30am (EDT)

Tired of struggling with CAD modeling? Creating 3D CAD models from 2D prints, along with designing tooling, fixtures and electrodes has never been easier with a new Mastercam add-on, called SpaceClaim. SpaceClaim, offered by MACDAC, is a fast and easy 2D/3D modeling program, and has a ton of useful tools that solve every day 2D/3D shop floor hassles.

If you are eager to spend more time programming parts with Mastercam and less time struggling with designing you should attend this informative webinar. See how SpaceClaim’s Rapid Modeling tools can:

• Easily create 3D CAD models from 2D drawings
• Convert DWG/DXF files into 3D CAD models
• Design tooling, fixtures, and electrodes
• Make 2D blueprints-drawings from the CAD model
• Reduce time spent designing by over 50%

SpaceClaim is easy to learn and use, will help you reduce job costs, and enable you to get parts out the door faster, resulting in increased profitability. We hope you will join us.

Register today by clicking here!

Visual Studio 2012 Project Templates for Mastercam X7

CNC Software recently created and published two new Visual Studio 2012 Project Templates for Mastercam X7, specifically for C# and VB.NET languages. These templates will allow you to create Mastercam C# NETHook, as well as VB.NET NETHook class library projects in Visual Studio 2012. With these templates you can quickly create a Mastercam NETHook project that will include all the methods defined implemented in a single class library. That means you essentially save the time doing the tedious job of creating a new class library and manually adding all the required NETHook methods for each NETHook project. Now you can jump right in and start developing right away.

The project templates have been published to the online Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery at the links below:

C# – http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f4c00dcd-a21e-413f-9725-d7a1c4b48076
VB.NET – http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/823700dc-d856-4c5e-9c71-4d1b313aa250

Second Mastercam X7 Technology Preview is Live!

The second Mastercam X7 Technology Preview is now available for download to all Mastercam customers currently on Maintenance! Here’s your chance to test-drive the latest technology that the upcoming Mastercam X7 release has to offer. This is a fully functional pre-release download allowing you to use all of your current Mastercam licenses for a timed period on the X7 platform. Take the opportunity to see the latest developments and give important feedback directly to the development team working to bring you Mastercam X7. Here are some of the updates you’ll see in Mastercam X7, slated for release later this quarter:

• The new Tool Manager provides an easy way to create, organize, and share your tooling information throughout your enterprise.
• Improved Backplot and Verify utilities offer a more efficient workflow, better analysis tools, and more comprehensive toolpath support.
• Dynamic and OptiRough toolpaths create more efficient tool motion, enhanced cut orders, and faster calculation times.
• Multi-threading support is extended to most 2D high speed toolpaths, resulting in faster toolpath processing.
• Oscillating motion for Curve and Swarf 5-axis toolpaths improves your tool life by varying the portion of the tool used to cut material.
• New Lathe Dynamic Roughing strategy for fast and efficient material removal.
•  And much more…

You can download the Mastercam X7 Technology Preview from the Mastercam web site here.

For more information, please contact us today.

Mastercam X7 Preview 1: Mill-Turn

Mastercam X7 is nearing release and over the next few weeks we’ll be previewing some of the new tools, strategies, and workflow benefits that X7 delivers.

Mastercam Mill-Turn: Simplifying Complex Machines

Mastercam Mill-Turn makes machining on today’s high-powered turning center and full-function machining centers simpler and easier. Mill-Turn streamlines the programming process with intelligent job setups that are keyed to the exact machine in your shop. Utilizing intelligent work plane selection, it’s as easy as selecting the spindle and turret you wish to utilize, and creating your toolpaths using Mastercam’s proven milling and lathe toolpaths. As we get closer to release, we’ll look at the details of programming, synchronization, and simulation.

Please contact us today for more information.

Upcoming User Group Meeting

Mark your calendars! MACDAC Engineering is hosting another user group on April 18th at Datron Dynamics in Milford, NH. Be sure and stop by and see how MACDAC is your total solution for manufacturing and have lunch with us!

See all our latest products and services. Meet our support staff. See NEW products and services. See how we take a part from concept to completion! We will be using our MACDAC Engineering products to produce a Longboard-style skateboard on a Datron CNC Machine. We will be going from CAD to inspection with many exciting steps in between.

• Repair Solid Model of Longboard in SpaceClaim
• Import into Mastercam and Program with High Speed Toolpaths
• Verify G-Code with JBM “G-Time Saver”
• WirefreeCNC Connectivity and Machine tool Data Collection
• Set up part using Renishaw Probing in Mastercam
• Run Part on Datron CNC/Presentation on Datron Machines
• Inspect part on Verisurf Master3DGage arm

You can check out a video of the Datron Longboard being cut here!

Attendees Include:

• MACDAC Engineering – Meet members of support and training staff. Put faces to the voices you have heard on the phone.
• Mastercam – See the latest in High Speed and Dynamic Milling.
• SpaceClaim – See the most efficient way to prepare ANY 3D Model for manufacturing
• Master3DGage and Verisurf – Integrating your inspection and reverse engineering to your CAM/CAD system
• JBM – Mastercam add ins and partner products for more efficiency in manufacturing
• WireFreeCNC – Wireless DNC connectivity and shop floor data collection for Overall Equipment Effectiveness
• 3dconnexion – 3D Mice for the Navigation of the 3D World

Lunch and refreshments will be served.

Please click the link bellow to register.
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=bgu4rpfab&oeidk=a07e75r5mi7a08835e7

Click here to read about a past user group at Cabelas in East Hartford, CT

We hope to see you there!