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fashioned knives by hand from horseshoes in a shop lo- cated within a chicken coop on the family farm. Before long, Hinderer’s reputation as a skilled designer and producer of custom knives grew. After purchasing his fi rst CNC ma-
chine, Hinderer realized that a CAD/CAM software pack- age would streamline the process further and allow him to design and manufacture his knives more uniformly, ensuring better quality.
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At the same time, Hinderer was launching his own business. He was also designing knives for a well-estab- lished knife manufacturer and working within Mastercam CAD/CAM software by CNC Software Inc. (Tolland, CT). After trying out a few entry-level pack- ages in his own shop, and experiencing frustration at their design-to-manufac- ture limitations, Hinderer invested in a seat of Mastercam.
“Establishing optimal cycle times
wasn’t really the reason I chose Master- cam. I found that no matter how many design ideas I might have in my head, I needed to be able to put them in a format that we could manufacture from. The entry-level software we were work- ing with did not have the tools to allow me to fi gure that out before the part was sent to the machine. Mastercam makes it easier to do that,” Hinderer said. Ease of use was also important to this self- taught CNC knife manufacturer. “I’m not a trained machinist, so when I started programming parts and discovering what Mastercam offered, I found that I could try different things to produce more ac- curate parts and higher quality knives.” While Hinderer is designing his knives, he can also program the part for production. If something looks off, he can change the parameters on each toolpath with a few clicks of the mouse. While he is quick to point out that he will never sacrifi ce quality to boost pro- ductivity, it does, in fact, allow Hinderer to optimize quality, material removal, and reduce tool wear simultaneously. Hinderer has become a big fan of the
roughing toolpaths incorporating Mas- tercam’s Dynamic Motion technology
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