Being an AlibreCAM user you likely know now that AlibreCAM’s last supported version in AlibreCAM 2020 and that all AlibreCAM users are being migrated to VisualCAD/CAM. This is a free migration to all AlibreCAM users. As an AlibreCAM user, you will need to migrate all of your AlibreCAM data files to VisualCAD/CAM to continue to […]
MecSoft Corporation is excited to announce the release of The 2021 Cutting Tools Workbook, a 120-page guide to working with cutting tools in its line-up of CAM plugins including VisualCAD/CAM, RhinoCAM and VisualCAM for SOLIDWORKS MILL, TURN, Profile-NEST and G-Code Editor modules. This is a bonus guide now free to all users. Many of you […]
MecSoft is proud to introduce the latest addition to its 3 Axis advanced machining suite, Indexed 3+2 Machining. This advanced Multi Axis method can be added, as a separately priced module, onto any Standard or Expert configuration. That’s right, you don’t need to have the Professional or Premium configurations to get the benefits of Indexed […]
MecSoft is proud to introduce the latest addition to its 3 Axis advanced machining suite, 3 Axis Adaptive Roughing. This advanced 3 Axis method can be added, as a separately priced module, onto any configuration starting with Standard (STD). That’s right, you don’t need to have the Expert, Professional or Premium configuration to get the benefits […]
Student Project: Megan Maynard Megan Maynard, a former graduate student from Louisiana Tech School of Design used Rhino to design the internal and external shapes. In RhinoCam Megan used inside and outside 2 Axis Profiling toolpaths that were then cut out on the school’s Multicam CNC Plasma. Megan then bent the metal by hand to […]
Student Project: Callie Robbins In this Louisiana Tech School of Design assignment, Joey Slaughter Associate Professor of Art, instructs students to reimagine what a shelf can be. The final shelf had to be made from metal. In the first step students learn to use curves in rhino and then how to make a scale […]
For those of you who are new to MecSoft’s MILL Module plugins (or even if you just want brush up on your CAM skills) we have released a newly updated 140-page step-by-step tutorial on how to program 2-sided (also referred to as flip machining) toolpaths for the F1 CO2 Racer Body shown here. This tutorial […]
Joey Slaughter is Associate Professor of Art at Louisiana Tech University School of Design in Ruston, LA. Joey has successfully integrated Rhinoceros CAD and RhinoCAM into his Advanced Sculpture curriculum. Students learn how to use various Computerized Numerical Control technology tools in a way that combines both hand work and technology into a new medium […]
RhinoCAM gives Windsurfers on the PWA World Tour a Cutting Edge! Michael Wazenski is a Systems Engineer with Northrop Grumman in Annapolis MD, overseeing systems integration projects on some of the most advanced satellite systems in the world including the JWST (James Webb Space Telescope). By night Michael, and his business partner Keith McCulloch operate […]
In this project Michael Wazenski of CNCFins.com, Annapolis MD machines 8 windsurf board fins in two setups (top and bottom). These are not just any fins – Michael’s world class fins are machined at and sold by Tectonics Maui, a confirmed leader in windsurfing boards and gear. Read the full case study here. The stock […]
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