MASTERCAM_®MILL Level 3

All the tools. All the options. All the power. 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.

Powerful Part Modeling

• Easy 2D and 3D geometry creation with multiple ways to create entities.
• Fast creation of a wide range of NURBS and parametric surfaces.
• Flexible surface filleting offers constant radius fillets and point-and-click variable radius fillets.
• Automatic parting line calculation for mold making.
• Associative dimensions update as you change your model.
• Quickly translate, mirror, scale, rotate and offset entities.
• Extensive editing tools ensure your model is exact.
• Dynamic rotation, panning, zooming in multiple views.
• AutoCursor™ snaps to commonly used points.
• User-definable drafting grid simplifies detailed construction.
• Measure minimum and maximum curvature radius, and calculate surface area for single or multiple surfaces.
• Analyze single points, between points, angles and entire entities.

Efficient Toolpath Management

• Mastercam's Operations Manager puts all your job's operations in one place. Easily create, edit and verify your tool-paths, or copy and paste parameters, toolpaths and tool definitions from one operation to another.
• Merge, translate, 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 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 series of holes simply by importing one stored operation.

Pocketing, Contouring and Drilling

2D and 2½D machining ranges from the very simple to the very complex. Mastercam delivers all the tools you need to maximize your time.

• Tapered wall contouring and contour remachining.
• Pocketing styles include zigzag, one way, true spiral, constant overlap and "morph" pocketing, each with optional finish passes.
• 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 reaches a sharp corner in spiral pocketing.
• Machine open pockets without creating additional geometry.
• Pocket remachining uses a smaller tool to automatically clean out material left from a previous cut.
• 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.
• 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 unique roughing and finishing passes and multiple depth cuts for any contour.
• Smart pocket depth control lets you choose to complete each Z depth in all pockets, or complete an entire pocket before moving on to the next.
• Optimize drill routines to minimize tool travel.

Powerful Roughing

Fast, efficient bulk material removal is essential to efficient NC programming. Mastercam gives you a variety of techniques to rough all of your parts.

• Rough cut multiple surfaces, solid models, or a combination of both.
• Rough-cut with constant Z contours or pockets.
• Rough-cut by descending parallel or radial cuts, with complete control over plunging with positive and negative Z motion.
• Project 2D toolpaths onto multiple surfaces for specialized rough cuts.
• Plunge roughing enters a part straight from the top (with no XY motion) and removes material.
• Constant Z rough REST milling (remachining) identifies and machines areas that need to be roughed with a smaller tool.
• Assign critical roughing depths to be sure consistent stock is left on areas that fall between Z-level cuts.

Versatile Finishing

Mastercam's suite of finishing tools lets you choose the best method for a specific project.

• Finish machine multiple surfaces, solid models, or a combination of both.
• Parallel finishing delivers robust tool-paths for a wide variety of projects.
• Scallop machining maintains a consistent finish on sloped and flat surfaces alike by using a constant 3D stepover.
• Create toolpaths radiating outward from a selected point with Radial finishing.
• Flowline machining cuts single or multiple surfaces using their natural shape to define the cutter path, delivering a smoother finish.
• Ruled toolpaths include automatic synchronization by entity, branch or node. Cutting options are constant Z, zigzag, circular, one way or 5-axis swarf machining.
• Finish machine by projecting a 2D tool-path onto multiple surfaces.

Cleanup Machining

Leftover material causes extra handwork and time. Mastercam automates leftover material removal, leaving you with a finer finish.

• Constant Z REST milling (remachining) identifies and machines areas that need to be cut with a smaller tool.
• Pencil tracing walks a tool along the intersection of surfaces to clean out hard-to-reach areas.
• Steep/Shallow machining cuts only those regions of selected surfaces that have slopes between two specified angles.

Efficient Machining Options

• Restrict roughing and finishing area with containment boundaries and check surfaces.
• For multiple cavities, choose to complete each Z depth in all cavities, or complete an entire cavity before moving on to the next.
• Run multi-surface machining functions immediately or set them all to run overnight with batch processing.
• Trim toolpaths to multiple boundaries.

Multiaxis Machining

Multiaxis machining adds an extra level of flexibility to your machining operations.Mastercam's suite of multiaxis tools lets you program quickly and efficiently.

• Swarf machining over multisurface floors.
• Swarf fanning.
• Tool vector filter adds or removes vectors for gouge prevention.
• 5-axis shank containment for cutting internal areas larger than tool entrance.
• 5-axis single surface flowline machining.
• Machine curves on surfaces in 5-axis including automatic projection of curves onto surfaces. Define side angle and lead/lag angle for the tool as well.
• Perform 5-axis drilling.
• Create 5-axis contour toolpaths around the surface edges of the model for applications such as trimming vacuum-formed parts.

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.
• Verify 2D toolpaths with a pixel paint of the full tool diameter to check the finish. Practical NC Tools
• Significantly reduce the size of a program with toolpath filtering. The filter automatically turns small, multiple linear moves into single line or arc moves within a specified tolerance.
• Mastercam automatically generates customizable setup sheets.
• Define separate entry and exit vectors for toolpaths to control the tool's approach and retract for cutting.
• Tool plane and tool origin allow programming in different views for tomb-stone work.
• Replace X or Y with a rotary axis to wrap the toolpath around a diameter with axis substitution.
• Pick from a library of hundreds of post-processors or have one customized.
• Macro recording automates repetitive tasks.
• Subroutine support.

High Speed Machining

High Speed Machining (HSM) is an alternate machining method combining high feed rates with high spindle speeds, specific tools, and specific tool motion. HSM can deliver faster turnaround and a superior finish. Mastercam includes a suite of HSM functions designed to help you make the most of this powerful new technique.
Powerful High-Speed Machining (HSM) Motion

• "Fishtail" corner cleanout for high-speed pocketing.
• Ramp contour finishing provides uninterrupted smooth motion.
• Variable Z-level cuts for smoother Z-level finishing
• Automatically plunge or begin cuts outside the part.
• Constant Z smoothing rounds sharp corners where possible.
• Loop onto and off of Z-level cuts for smooth continuous motion
• High-speed channel machining strategy for eliminating tool burial.
• High-speed options for surface rough pocket, surface rough contour, and surface finish contour help automate high-speed motion.

Specialized Options Very often that little something extra – that one additional CAD or CAM tool – makes a specific job easier, faster and more profitable. Mastercam offers a set of specialized add-on options for these occasions.

• Automatic separation of imported model into core and cavity, including identification of potential problem surfaces.
• Point-and-click mold lock creation.
• Automated complex shutoff creation.
• Automated EDM electrode creation including a library of definable stock sizes and materials.

File Management and Data Exchange

• 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.
• Save a description with your parts to keep track of revisions.
• View thumbnail images of parts for easier browsing and loading.
• File management includes a variety of options for saving and retrieving files, parts of files, specific elements, and more.




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