swingwing205
01-08-2008, 01:36 PM
Guys, I need some advise about learning this software. I've been a machinist for 11 years now, and I just recently changed jobs.
One thing I was bound to do was to learn cad/cam of some form (former employer was too cheap to send me to school, even after 8+ years!), and the cad/cam program here used is Featurecam 2005. It seems very user friendly (NOT like Mastercam, totally criptic stuff there), I've picked up a bunch about it in no time (I've downloaded the 2008 tutorials/guidebook off the Internet), and I work with an excellent machinist that knows this software well, and so I've been picking his brain about it.
Is there anything I need to know while learning Featurecam that'll help me out, maybe learn it faster/better? Any tricks I need to pick up on? How hard is 3D surfacing? I realize these are very general questions, so please bear with me. Any positive instruction, especially from the very experienced Featurecam users, will be greatly appreciated!
One thing I was bound to do was to learn cad/cam of some form (former employer was too cheap to send me to school, even after 8+ years!), and the cad/cam program here used is Featurecam 2005. It seems very user friendly (NOT like Mastercam, totally criptic stuff there), I've picked up a bunch about it in no time (I've downloaded the 2008 tutorials/guidebook off the Internet), and I work with an excellent machinist that knows this software well, and so I've been picking his brain about it.
Is there anything I need to know while learning Featurecam that'll help me out, maybe learn it faster/better? Any tricks I need to pick up on? How hard is 3D surfacing? I realize these are very general questions, so please bear with me. Any positive instruction, especially from the very experienced Featurecam users, will be greatly appreciated!