MASTERCAM® LATHE

Simple interface. Associative toolpaths. Turning made easy. Capture your machining knowledge Mastercam's full associativity gives you the power to capture your knowledge and build on your experience. Once you program a part - any part - you can modify any element of the job and immediately get updated toolpaths without starting over. And Mastercam's intelligent NC programming lets you build a library of machining strategies done the way you want them. Just choose saved operations and apply them to a part, and Mastercam adapts them to the new model. Fast, easy and productive. The way programming should be. Logical Part Modeling

• Easy 2D and 3D geometry creation with complete wireframe & surface modeling.
• Extensive editing and analysis tools ensure your model is exact.
• Associative dimensions update as you change your model.
• Dynamic rotation, panning, zooming in multiple views.
• AutoCursor^TM snaps to commonly used points to simplify construction.
• Import and export data from any CAD system with built-in translators including IGES, Parasolid^TM, SAT (ACIS solids), DXF, CADL, VDA, STL, and ASCII. Optional CATIA, Pro-E, STEP, and AutoCAD DWG translators are also available.

Designed for Ease

• Fully associative geometry and tool-paths let you modify the geometry, tooling information or machining parameters and immediately get an accurate, updated toolpath.
• Mastercam's Operations Manager gives you a single place to create, modify and analyze all aspects of your toolpaths.
• Store a library of commonly used operations to automate machining. For example, you can rough and finish a new part simply by importing one stored set of operations and applying them to a new model.
• Tool auto-selection displays appropriate tools or allows full access to Mastercam's tool library.

Powerful Lathe Programming

• Intelligent roughing of inside and out-side diameters, including roughing to an outer boundary for castings.
• Optimized facing including rough and finish pass routines.
• Zigzag and one way roughing.
• Finish contouring (profiling).
• Skip over a groove or cavity when roughing or finishing without creating additional geometry.
• Complete threading with multiple starts, diameter calculation and thread tables.
• Groove at any angle with multiple depth cuts and pecking.
• Groove from a point or multiple points without creating geometry.
• Easily define groove depth, width, wall angles, corner radius and corner chamfer.
• Boring, drilling and point-to-point machining.
• Automatic gouge checking watches the front and back of the tool.
• Canned cycle and subprogram support including roughing, finishing, grooving and pattern repeating.
• Chuck, part and tailstock detection.
• Easily define entry and exit vectors to control the tool's approach and retract for cutting.

Dependable Toolpath Verification

• Step through the program with insert, holder and toolpath back plotting and get an estimate of machining time.
• Quickly verify toolpaths as they are created with a cross sectional view as material is removed from the part.
• Verify your part being cut from solid material with Mastercam's solid-model toolpath verification.

C-axis (Mill/Turn) Programming

• Full C-axis programming when combined with Mastercam Mill.
• Face and Cross contour.
• Face drill and Cross drill including the ability to sort points in a clockwise or counterclockwise sweep (rotary) direction.
• Automatically sets tool plane and construction plane for face/cross contour and face/cross drill.
• Machine C-axis contours with three –dimensional or flat geometry.

Extensive Libraries

• Comprehensive insert libraries including Sandvik, Kenametal^®, Iscar and Valenite^®.
• Extensive tool and tool holder libraries.
• User-customizable material libraries automatically calculate feeds and speeds.
• Choose from a library of hundreds of post processors or have one customized.

Practical NC Tools

• Significantly reduce the size of a program with toolpath filtering.
• Automatically generate customizable setup sheets.




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