MASTERCAM_® MILL Level 2

More power. More tools. More ways to grow. 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 and 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, SAT (ACIS solids), DXF, CADL, VDA, STL, ASCII, STEP, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, AutoCAD DWG and more.

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.
• Translate, reverse, rotate, mirror, copy, cut and paste segments of your tool-path.
• User-customizable tool and material libraries automatically calculate feeds and speeds.
• Graphical toolpath editor gives you point-and-click on-screen editing tools.

Associative Toolpaths

• Fully associative geometry and tool-paths let you modify 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.

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.
• Automated pocket remachining (left-over stock removal).
• Machine tapered-wall pockets and islands, including islands of different heights.
• Smart pocket area control lets you machine depths without retracting or machine all cuts in a single depth before moving to the next (perfect for thin wall machining).
• Facing cleans stock from the tops of islands or the entire part.
• Easily machine 2D and 3D contours including parametric and NURBS splines.
• Full control over the tool's approach and retract.

Powerful 3-axis Machining

• Efficiently machine single surfaces or single solid faces.
• Rough using parallel or radial cuts, with complete control over plunging and positive/negative Z motion.
• Constant Z contour and pocket roughing.
• Flowline finishing uses the natural shape of a surface to define the tool-path, delivering a smoother finish.
• Finish machine with Parallel cuts, or use Radial, which creates toolpaths radiating outward from a selected point.
• Limit the area to be roughed or finished with check surfaces or a chained boundary.
• Ruled toolpath includes automatic synchronization by entity, branch or node.
• High-speed machining (HSM) support including smooth tool motion, automatically variable Z-level cuts, and "channel" machining.

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.
• Save a library of optimized feed rate ranges for all your machines.

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.

Practical NC Tools

• Tool plane and tool origins allow easy tombstone programming.
• Axis substitution wraps the toolpath around a cylinder.
• Significantly reduce the size of a program with toolpath filtering.
• Pick from a library of hundreds of post processors or have one customized
• Automatically generate customizable setup sheets




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