• MASTERCAM® DESIGN

Import it. Edit it. Create it from scratch.Efficient Wireframe Geometry

• Multiple point and line creation techniques.
• Efficient arc, circle, and fillet functions, including filleting at every corner in a chain of entities.
• A variety of functions for creating splines on surfaces including surface projections, surface intersections, edge curves, slicing curves, and parting lines.
• Create pre-filleted shapes to save time.

Flexible Geometry Editing

• Change widths, styles, and colors globally or for a single entity.
• Quickly modify parameters such as line length and arc radius after creation.
• Fillet or chamfer corners easily.
• Extend lines, arcs, splines, and surfaces.
• Trim single or multiple surfaces with full undo capability.
• Quickly translate, mirror, and scale (uniformly or with separate factors in X, Y, and Z).
• Offset entities by a given distance.

Powerful Surface Modeling

• Create parametric and NURBS surfaces using loft, ruled, revolved, swept, draft, Coons patch, and offset creation methods.
• Create blend surfaces for complex tasks such as ball corners and blending between surfaces.
• Instantly create a flat surface simply by creating a rectangle or selecting a closed boundary of any shape.
• Create swept surfaces with an unlimited number of cross-sections.
• Trim single and multiple surfaces to curves, planes and surfaces.
• Undo surface trimming all at once or one boundary at a time.
• Easily extend and split surfaces.
• Flexible surface filleting offers constant radius fillets and point-and-click variable radius fillets.
• Automatic parting line calculation for mold making.
• 3D Primitives allows easy parametric creation of surfaced blocks, spheres, cylinders, cones, and other shapes.
• Create, edit, and manipulate realistically shaded surface models. Fast geometry creation and powerful surfacing tools give you the best in flexible part modeling.

Easy Drafting Tools

• Automatic dimensioning.
• Modify dimensioned geometry and its dimensions automatically update.
• Create horizontal, vertical, parallel, baseline, chained, angular, diameter, radius, ordinate and point coordinate dimensions, as well as notes and labels.
• Easily drag and place drafting notes as they are being created and change their attributes on the fly.
• Plot or print drawings in full color.
• Choose from a library of line and cross-hatch styles.

File Management and Data Exchange

• Built-in data translators for IGES, Parasolid^®, SAT (ACIS solids), DXF, CADL, STL, VDA, and ASCII. Direct translators for AutoCAD (DWG), STEP, Catia, and Pro-E are also available.
• Save a description of your files for easier browsing and loading.
• View files before opening them.

Selection Options

• AutoCursor^TM snaps to commonly used points to simplify construction.
• AutoHighlight changes the color of entities when the cursor is over them, making selection easy.
• Quickly access common functions using the right mouse button.
• Smart chaining selects an entire chain of entities at once and automates other selection tasks.
• Restrict your selections to specific entity types, colors, levels, line styles or line widths.
• Group and ungroup entities for easy selection.
• Select entities inside, outside, or inter-secting a rectangular window or a polygon sketched with the mouse.
• User-definable grid simplifies detailed construction.

Analyzing Geometry

• Instantly analyze any entity for size, location, entity type, and other attributes.
• Measure distance between points and angles between lines in 2D or 3D.
• Check the integrity of surface models and trimmed surface boundaries.
• Measure minimum and maximum radius of curvature anywhere on a surface, and calculate surface area for single or multiple surfaces.
• Draft angle analysis (from vertical) anywhere on a surface.