Navigating the transition from an older version of Mastercam to the cutting-edge release can seem daunting. However, with the Mastercam Migration Wizard at your disposal, upgrading has never been smoother. This invaluable tool ensures that your vital data seamlessly transitions into the newest version, safeguarding your work and enhancing your machining capabilities with the latest features and improvements. Whether you're moving a few steps forward or leapfrogging multiple releases, the Migration Wizard is designed to streamline the process, ensuring that your Mastercam file types and custom configurations are preserved. Join us as we guide you through the straightforward steps to efficiently migrate your data, ensuring you're quickly up and running with the latest advancements in Mastercam technology.
Mastercam Migration Wizard
It will migrate the following file types.
Start with launching the newer version of Mastercam you want to migrate data into.
Once it opens go to “files” then “Convert”, and “Migration Wizard”.
For this example, we are going to perform a “Basic” Migration.
Important: If you store this data in non-default locations you will want to use the “Advanced Migration” and select the custom file locations manually.
Also, each version of Mastercam can only reach back 3 versions for Migration. For example, if you need to migrate from 2019 to 2023 you will need to install 2022 and migrate from 2019 to 2022 then from 2022 to 2023.
See the example in the image below:
Then review the file locations page.
Click next and that brings you to the “Review” page just review then click “Finish.”
It will process for a while and a message will pop up please select “Replace the original file in the destination folder” and check the check box that says “Apply this action to all subsequent conflicts”. See the image below:
It will ask you if you want to see the results, you can say yes or no.
Then you can test out the newer version of Mastercam to make sure all your data has been migrated.
In this article, you learned how to migrate your Mastercam data from an older version of Mastercam to a newer version. This will make it easier to keep up with the latest version of Mastercam.