FastCAM recognizes the need to send tradespeople out into industry with real world commercial skills.
Our FastCAM Education Program is designed to afford trade students the opportunity to learn technology skills relevant to the manufacture and fabrication industries. With dozens of software products, FastCAM is used by hundred of users around the world in many different industries including Steel Fabrication, Metal Fabrication, Steel Service Centers, Mining, Construction, Signcutting, Woodworking and Flat Glass.
FastCAM supports teaching institutes in making our software extremely affordable and easy to integrate into the curriculum.
By using FastCAM® software you can teach new layout and processing methods that offer computer based accuracy and ease.
FastCAM makes it easy and affordable to teach technology skills relevant to manufacture and fabrication with a College License. Contact us for more information.
FastCAM has products for pipe, plate, bar and beam processing (metals) and lengths and panels (wood and flat glass). The range is from 2D NC Programming solutions such as FastCAM®, FastPLOT(TM) and FastNEST® to simple shear nesting (FastCUT®) to complex thick plate transitions such as our FastSHAPES® pattern development programs. All systems are CAD compatible and can import CAD files but are 'standalone' and 'CAD-free' (less complex than CAD and more intuitive and relevant to tradespeople).
Our Tradesman in a Box manual layout and development system was purpose built to address students needs in some of our existing partner colleges, however all parts of our software are available for use by teaching institutes and offer the following advantages:
Designed to be used by tradespeople
Powerful yet simple to use
Realworld practical technology for industry
Familiar Windows Software.
FastCAM® software is currently used successfully in the training of practitioners in metal fabrication trades and associated industries such as:
Boilermaking, sheetmetal, metals processing and Metal Processing Centers, addressing the following cutting technology aspects:
CAD and CAD /CAM Oxy Fuel and Plasma cutting
Automated metals processing
Material Optimizing and cost reduction
Software based plate development for machine and manual techniques
Other possible inclusions into a broad range of trade curriculum topics include:
Drawing & Nesting for CNC Profile Cutting Equipment
NC Code basics
Part Creation
Interfacing with CAD
Nesting & Optimization Techniques
Flat Pattern Development
Routing
Manual lofting and plate development techniques
Oxy-Fuel Cutting ( Manual and machine based)
Plasma Cutting
Laser processing
Water -Jet cutting
Operation of Cut-off saws and shears
Pattern developments methods for sheet-metal and Boilermaking trades.
Costing and Estimating
FastCAM® Education provides comprehensive support for Training Institutes including:
Education Licensing of FastCAM® Software products
Training and Train the Trainer courses
Curriculum development assistance and consultancy
Staff development seminars and workshops
We welcome your interest in our education program. Please email enquiries to fastcam@fastcamusa.com
