This cool project was designed by Ben McDonald at The University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Material Labs. In this project Ben designs and fabricates a tile system used to disperse incoming sunlight. The design incorporates RhinoCAM toolpaths that are used to help refract the incoming light along the cutter paths. […]
This cool project was designed by Jed Laver at The University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Material Labs. In this project Jed uses RhinoCAM in the process of making the ceramic tiles for his next-generation EcoCeramic CMU (Concrete Masonry Units). The master molds were cut from MDF (Medium Density Foam) using […]
The University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Material Labs is an extension of the University of Arizona’s pedagogical mission to provide environments to explore, model, fabricate, and test design ideas. The labs encompass a 9,000 sq. ft. facility providing a professional quality environment and equipment accommodating a wide variety of materials […]
Here’s a step-by-step exercise to practice machining multi-sided parts using VisualCAMc, Onshape’s new Integrated Cloud App for production-level CAM.
Here’s a step-by-step exercise to practice setting up for machining multi-sided parts using VisualCAMc for Onshape, MecSoft’s new Integrated Cloud App for production-level CAM.
VisualCAMc is a powerful, yet easy-to-use Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and CNC machining application for Onshape users.
Here’s a free guide to using VisualCAMc, production CAM for Onshape.
This article describes the use of two different modules in RhinoCAM, RhinoCAM-MESH and RhinoCAM-MILL. The RhinoCAM-MESH module contains an Inspect & Modify menu (shown below) with commands that allow you to Inspect your mesh models using various reflection and curvature comparison techniques. More importantly, the menu contains Mesh modification commands such as Reduce Mesh, Re-Mesh […]
As a companion to our recently released 2018 VisualCAD Exercise Guide, MecSoft Corporation is proud to announce the release of The 2018 VisualCAD Companion, a FREE 300-page guide to VisualCAD, MecSoft’s free CAD program! VisualCAD can be download as part of VisualCAD/CAM 2018, MecSoft’s flagship Computer Aided Manufacturing Software. This guide includes descriptions, command prompts […]
Jim Lohmann of Lohmann Woodcarving Company has been practicing woodcarving by hand for the past 45 years, getting his start in the Boston area, and then moving to Chicago. Today, Jim works from his workshop in Covington, Michigan where he has been practicing his craft for the past 30 years. For centuries, the “tools-of-the-trade” of […]
