SigurdACVW
Aluminum
- Joined
- Aug 16, 2013
- Location
- IL
I work for a small mold shop. Recently, our CNC guy turned in his notice and left rather quickly. The shop moved one of our toolroom guys into the CNC position and he has been learning from the old CNC guy for about a week or so. The management also told me that I will be the "backup CNC guy", but mostly still do toolroom-type work (machining, burning, repair jobs, etc.)
I run a 2-axis CNC knee mill, surface grinder and sinker EDM. I use Solidworks and MasterCAM X5 to program holes and pockets from a drawing. I can get around those two programs fairly well. I took the 2D MasterCAM course in my apprenticeship.
As far as the surfacing, programming from solid, .igs, .stp, all that stuff goes, I am lost. I would like to teach myself these concepts. This is being spurred on by the fact that my current job has a simple pocket with drafted walls and a huge corner radius in the bottom, and there's nobody here to program it. The company is in a jam, and I do not know what our training budget is. Is there a good resource online where I can read/watch about bringing a solid model in, creating surfaces, chaining, etc.? We have MasterCAM X5, X8, and 2017.
Thanks for your time.
I run a 2-axis CNC knee mill, surface grinder and sinker EDM. I use Solidworks and MasterCAM X5 to program holes and pockets from a drawing. I can get around those two programs fairly well. I took the 2D MasterCAM course in my apprenticeship.
As far as the surfacing, programming from solid, .igs, .stp, all that stuff goes, I am lost. I would like to teach myself these concepts. This is being spurred on by the fact that my current job has a simple pocket with drafted walls and a huge corner radius in the bottom, and there's nobody here to program it. The company is in a jam, and I do not know what our training budget is. Is there a good resource online where I can read/watch about bringing a solid model in, creating surfaces, chaining, etc.? We have MasterCAM X5, X8, and 2017.
Thanks for your time.