Mastercam X4 Router: Spotlight on Nesting

High yields can be crucial to a job’s profitability. Mastercam Router includes essential nesting capabilities that assure optimal material usage for the highest possible yields.

Mastercam Router X4 has Nesting Drag and Drop support, allowing you to perform automatic nesting with just enough manual intervention to achieve the best possible result in the least amount of time.

Another useful feature is the ability to automatically generate a toolpath for vertical and horizontal cut-offs. The options allow you to trim either the horizontal or vertical cut-off first, which will preserve rectangular remnants for future use.

Mastercam X4 Router now includes sophisticated interlocking nesting tools as a standard part of the powerful design and NC programming package. Highlights include:

• Fast, efficient interlocking part nesting maximizes material use.
• Double-sided nesting allows the flexibility of nesting parts with front- and back-side operations.
• Common-edge nesting maximizes material usage and reduces machining time.
• Automatic onion skinning maximizes vacuum during heavy cutting.
• Create custom part labels and nested sheet reports.

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• Mastercam X4: Spotlight on Lathe
• CNC Software Releases Mastercam X4 for SolidWorks

Mastercam X4: Spotlight on Lathe

Mastercam X4 Lathe is here with a new suite of CAD/CAM tools focused on delivering speed and efficiency for your machining jobs. From roughing and finishing to easy grooving and threading, Mastercam Lathe has been designed to reduce programmer interaction and increase machining flexibility.

Powerful Part Modeling
Mastercam’s streamlined CAD engine makes design work easier than ever before. Each piece of geometry you create is “live,” letting you quickly modify it until it’s exactly what you want.

Precise Turning

Mastercam X4 Lathe delivers a streamlined set of programming tools, including:

• “Quick Toolpaths” for programming parts with just a few clicks.
• Optimized facing including roughing and finishing.
• Complete threading with multiple starts, diameter calculation, and user customizable thread tables.
• In addition to turning, full 3- to 5-axis milling, including machines with B-axis tooling arms.
• Grooving with multiple depth cuts and pecking.
• Easily assign groove depth, width, wall angles, corner radius, chamfer, and corner dwells.
• Stock recognition for optimized turning toolpaths with minimal user interaction.
• Comprehensive lead-in/lead-out controls minimize the need to modify the CAD model to control tool motion.
• Steady rest option supports long work pieces, minimizing deflection from tool pressure and material weight.

Designed for Ease

• Fully associative toolpaths are linked with your geometry. Modify any element of the job and immediately get updated toolpaths without starting over.
• Mastercam’s CAD File Change Recognition tracks files from Mastercam or any other CAD system and will show you what’s been changed for easy toolpath updating.
• Comprehensive insert libraries including Sandvik®, Kennametal®, Iscar®, and Valentine®.
• See your part as it will come off the machine with solid model toolpath verification.

For more information about Mastercam X4 Lathe, please visit www.mastercamlathe.com

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• CNC Software Releases Mastercam X4 for SolidWorks

CNC Software Releases Mastercam X4 for SolidWorks

CNC Software, Inc. is proud to introduce Mastercam® for SolidWorks®, which combines the world’s leading modeling software with the world’s most widely-used CAM software*. Now you can program parts directly in SolidWorks, using toolpaths and machining strategies preferred the most by shops around the world.

The Core of Your Machining Needs

Mastercam for SolidWorks includes a suite of the most sought-after cutting strategies, including High Speed Machining (HSM) toolpaths. In addition, Mastercam for SolidWorks delivers a powerful set of automated toolpaths that get parts off the machine faster, with little or no handwork.

Mastercam X4 includes many exciting new tools, including:

• Multi-threading
• New Dynamic Mill toolpath
• Feature Based Machining (FBM) Drill enhancements
• Feature Based Machining (FBM) Mill enhancements
• Tree-style dialog boxes for 2D toolpaths
• New toolpath refinement delivers improved 3D surface finish
• New Circle 5-axis toolpath
• Multiple materials for generic Mastercam Automatic Toolpathing (ATP)
• Nesting drag-and-drop support
• Vertical/horizontal cut-off options in Nesting
• Updated dialogs for Lathe C-axis toolpaths
• Lathe grooving enhancements
• Support for Agie EDM with Agievision controls
• Post debugger enhancements and new features
• New Dynamic Plane creation method for defining parameters
• Level Manager improvements and reorganization
• Viewsheet improvements
• Wireframe feature recognition in chaining
• User-customizable setup sheet
• Rewritten surface fillet code to improve surfaces
• New Dynamic Xform function
• And much more…

 

 

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