MASTERCAM_® MILL Level 1

Start with it. Add to it. Profit by it. 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, and zooming in multiple views.
• AutoCursor™ snaps to commonly used points to simplify construction.
• Import and export data from any CAD system with built-in translators including IGES, Parasolid, SAT (ACIS solids), DXF, CADL, VDA, STL, and ASCII. Optional CATIA, Pro-E, STEP, and AutoCAD DWG translators are also available.

Associative Toolpaths

• Fully associative geometry and toolpaths let you modify the geometry or machining parameters and immediately get an accurate, updated toolpath.
• Store a library of commonly used operations to automate machining. For example, you can spot drill, peck drill, and tap a new series of holes simply by importing one stored operation.

Efficient Toolpath Management

• Mastercam's Operations Manager stores all your job's operations in one place. Quickly create, edit and verify your toolpaths, or copy and paste parameters, toolpaths and tool definitions from one operation to another.
• Merge, translate, reverse, rotate, mirror, copy, cut and paste segments of your toolpath.
• User-customizable tool and material libraries automatically calculate feeds and speeds.
• Graphical toolpath editor gives you point-and-click on-screen editing tools.

Pocketing, Contouring and Drilling

• Tapered wall contouring and contour remachining.
• Pocketing styles include zigzag, one way, true spiral, constant overlap spiral and "morph" pocketing, each with optional finish passes.
• Machine open pockets without creating additional geometry.
• Choose helical or ramp entry for each pocketing level. Output helix moves as arcs or lines.
• Clean-corners and constant overlap features eliminate material when the tool turns a sharp corner in spiral pocketing.
• Pocket remachining uses a smaller tool to automatically clean out material left from a previous cut.
• Wear compensation for pocket finish passes lets you adjust for tool wear at the machine tool without creating a new toolpath.
• Choose multiple drill points, contours, pockets, and nested pockets with a single selection.
• Choose separate taper angles for pocket walls and islands, including islands of different heights.
• Smart pocket depth control lets you machine depths without retracting or machine all cuts in a single area before moving to the next.
• Facing cleans stock from the tops of islands or the entire part.
• Program separate lead-in and lead-out for contours and pocket finish passes.
• Choose multiple roughing and finishing passes and multiple depth cuts for any contour.
• Easily machine 2D and 3D contours including parametric and NURBS splines.
• Optimize drill routines to minimize tool travel.
• Full control over the tool's approach and retract.
• Tool plane and tool origins allow easy programming in different views for tombstone work.
• Axis substitution replaces X or Y with a rotary axis to wrap the toolpath around a diameter.
• High-speed machining (HSM) support including "fishtail" pocketing to eliminate sharp corner motion.

Dependable Toolpath Verification

• Watch your part being cut from a solid block of material with Mastercam's solid-model toolpath verification. The tool and holder are checked and displayed during simulation.
• Step through the program with toolpath backplotting and get an estimate of machining time.
• Quickly verify 2D toolpaths with a pixel paint of the full tool diameter.

Smart Feed Rate Optimization

• Automatically vary feed rates based on volume. More material and the cutter moves slower; less material, the cutter moves faster.
• Automatically ease the tool into and out of corners.
• Create a library of optimized feed rate ranges for all your machines.

Practical NC Tools

• Significantly reduce the size of a program with toolpath filtering.
• Macro recording automates repetitive tasks.
• Pick from a library of hundreds of post processors or have one customized.
• Automatically generate customizable setup sheet.




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