This 10-week course teaches students how to use Mastercam X software to design 2D and 3D parts and create toolpaths for a CNC milling machine. Over the course of lectures and hands-on labs, students will learn to model basic shapes and surfaces, create different types of toolpaths including contouring, drilling, and pocketing, and explore advanced techniques such as using depth cuts and modifying toolpaths. The goal is for students to understand the Mastercam interface and be able to accomplish common 2D and 3D modeling and toolpath operations.
This 10-week course teaches students how to use Mastercam X software to design 2D and 3D parts and create toolpaths for a CNC milling machine. Over the course of lectures and hands-on labs, students will learn to model basic shapes and surfaces, create different types of toolpaths including contouring, drilling, and pocketing, and explore advanced techniques such as using depth cuts and modifying toolpaths. The goal is for students to understand the Mastercam interface and be able to accomplish common 2D and 3D modeling and toolpath operations.
This 10-week course teaches students how to use Mastercam X software to design 2D and 3D parts and create toolpaths for a CNC milling machine. Over the course of lectures and hands-on labs, students will learn to model basic shapes and surfaces, create different types of toolpaths including contouring, drilling, and pocketing, and explore advanced techniques such as using depth cuts and modifying toolpaths. The goal is for students to understand the Mastercam interface and be able to accomplish common 2D and 3D modeling and toolpath operations.
This 10-week course teaches students how to use Mastercam X software to design 2D and 3D parts and create toolpaths for a CNC milling machine. Over the course of lectures and hands-on labs, students will learn to model basic shapes and surfaces, create different types of toolpaths including contouring, drilling, and pocketing, and explore advanced techniques such as using depth cuts and modifying toolpaths. The goal is for students to understand the Mastercam interface and be able to accomplish common 2D and 3D modeling and toolpath operations.
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Course Name: Introduction to Mastercam
Course Description: Introduction to Mastercam provides training on the use of Mastercam X CAD / CAM software to design parts and toolpaths for a modern CNC Vertical Machining Center. Students complete a series of exercises that progress from designing a two-dimensional part and creating a contour toolpath to more advanced CNC Mill applications. Safety and efficient machining will be stressed throughout the course.
Course Objectives: The purpose of this course is to orient students to the Mastercam program and interface. Students successfully completing this course will have a good introduction to accomplishing common drafting and milling operations with Mastercam. Students will be required to demonstrate hands-on skill working with 2D and 3D toolpaths. Introduction to Mastercam prepares students for additional study of Mastercam Surfaces and Solids.
Course Content:
Week 1 Lecture and discussion topics: Introductions, objectives, Course Syllabus, Cartesian coordinate system, manual programming, Getting started with Mastercam.
Lab: Getting Started, Exercise 1 – Learning the Mastercam interface, Exercise 2 – Designing a rectangle, Exercise 3 – Deleting the rectangle and using help.
Week 2 Lecture and discussion topics: Creating a new file, Creating points, lines, arcs and fillets, Mirroring and rotating lines, Trimming lines and arcs, Creating a contour toolpath, Chaining geometry, Choosing a tool and setting toolpath parameters, Using the backplot function to preview a toolpath, Posting the toolpath to an NC file, Using the Operations Manager to edit toolpaths, Changing toolpath parameters, Regenerating operations, Adding entry and exit moves, using a selection mask.
Lab: Creating a 2D Part and Contour Toolpath, Exercise 1 – Designing the part, Exercise 2 – Creating the contour toolpath, Exercise 3 – Making changes to the toolpath.
Week 3 Lecture and discussion topics: Finishing and multi-pass roughing operations, Chamfering, Mirror.
Lab: Copying and Transforming Operations, Exercise 1 – Creating roughing and finishing passes, Exercise 2 – Creating a contour chamfer, Exercise 3 – Mirroring the part and toolpath.
Week 4 Lecture and discussion topics: Creating arcs, tangent arcs and lines, Trimming geometry, Rotating geometry around a center point and rotating toolpaths.
Lab: Rotating Geometry and Toolpaths, Exercise 1 – Creating the geometry, Exercise 2 – Cutting the slots, Exercise 3 – Rotating the toolpath. Week 5 Lecture and discussion topics: Using a mask to select arcs for the drill toolpath, Sorting points to set the drilling order, Filtering the tool library, Creating the drill toolpath and multiple Z depths, Using incremental values to set drill parameters, Using viewports to look at your part from several angles.
Lab: Creating Drill Toolpaths, Exercise 1 – Creating a basic drill toolpath, Exercise 2 – Changing the size of a drill toolpath, Exercise 3 – Drilling at different Z depths.
Week 6 Orienting geometry by choosing Cplanes, Orienting geometry by setting the Z depth, Copying geometry with the Translation function, Offsetting a contour, Using dynamic Gviews, Using the View manager to change the orientation of the coordinate system
Lab: Working in 3D, Exercise 1 – Creating 3D geometry, Exercise 2 – Drawing the bottom of the part, Exercise 3 – Creating a drill toolpath in the new system view.
Week 7 Lecture and discussion topics: Circle milling, Helical milling, Slot milling, Creating and naming a custom view, Orienting views to part geometry, Using depth cuts and multiple passes in a contour toolpath, Remachining a part to remove leftover stock, Using Auto drill to create spot drilling, pre- drilling, drilling, Tapping, and chamfering operations
Lab: Using Circle Toolpaths, Exercise 1 – Creating a custom view, Exercise 2 – Machining the outside contour, Exercise 3 – Machining the holes and slot, Exercise 4 – Using Auto drill to create multiple drilling operations.
Week 8 Lecture and discussion topics: Using Job Setup to define a stock boundary, Creating a facing toolpath, Creating pocket toolpaths, Using the Parallel Spiral cutting method, Using the Constant Overlap Spiral method, Using helical entry, Using an entry point in a pocket toolpath, Creating in/out moves for a finish pass, Using ramp contours.
Lab: Facing and Pocketing Toolpaths, Exercise 1 – Facing the stock with high-speed loops, Exercise 2 – Comparing different pocket cutting methods, Exercise 3 – Specifying an entry point, Exercise 4 – Using contour ramp.
Week 9 Lecture and discussion topics: Remachining pockets, Using the helical lead in/out feature, Using a metric part, Using depth cuts, Using island facing, Machining tapered walls, Using the Toolpath Editor to modify selected points on a toolpath.
Lab: Pocket and Contour Toolpath Techniques, Exercise 1 – Remachining pockets, Exercise 2 – Using depth cuts, island facing, and tapered walls, Exercise 3 – modifying a toolpath using the Toolpath Editor. Week 10 Lecture and discussion topics: Review progress and difficulties, applications, what you need to know to pass the Final Exam. The next Mastercam courses in the series are Surfaces and Solids.
Lab: All exercises are due by the end of class today. Study and practice for Final Exam
