Schools are selected for the program based on having excellent manufacturing curriculum, skilled and dedicated instructors, engaged and active students, strong corporate or administrative support from the manufacturing community, and member involvement from local SME chapters. This program created and fosters strong partnerships between organizations, businesses, and exemplary schools to provide a more comprehensive, community-based approach to manufacturing education. Mastercam has joined a coalition of organizations across the country supporting PRIME (Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education). He said that regenerating the program in Mastercam for SolidWorks saved him at least half a day of additional programming. One prototype Crump manufactured recently went through five design changes. To clean these up, I simply select the geometry, hit ‘regenerate’, and Mastercam automatically reconfigures the toolpaths.” I program inside of SolidWorks and if anything in the design changes, Mastercam will flag these areas as dirty operations. He said, “I don’t import parasolids files anymore. It also incorporates the same machining strategies that he had relied on, including High Speed Machining (HSM) along with a powerful set of automated, feature-based toolpaths that get parts off the machine faster, with little or no handwork. Mastercam for SolidWorks offers the same programming interface as the standalone version of Mastercam. Now Crump can create CAM programs directly in the SolidWorks environment. Mastercam for SolidWorks that integrates both SolidWorks and Mastercam in one seamless environment. Scinomix solved the problem by giving their programmer/machinist a seat of a single product. The inefficient scenario cost at least one day per work week and was becoming a drag on the company’s productivity. In either case, this resulted in a couple hours of additional programming time Crump would either import the changed parasolids file and reprogram the part entirely, or redraw the changed geometry in Mastercam and then regenerate those portions of the toolpaths.
These changes made in SolidWorks have to be detected and reconciled with the manufacturing programs created in Mastercam. He used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with design changes that ocur frequently because of the company’s expertise in prototyping. His time is divided between setting up and operating a Haas 3-axis vertical CNC mill and programming a steady stream of prototype and production parts that are continually being fed to him by the company’s founders and principal designers. The company is a relatively small but rapidly growing high-tech manufacturing company specializing in flexible modular automation for laboratory research and drug discovery. He works as a Mastercam programmer and machinist for Scinomix.
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