The Core of Your Turning Needs
Mastercam gives your shop the best possible foundation for fast and efficient turning. From roughing and finishing to easy grooving and threading, Mastercam ensures that you’re ready for any job. And you can combine Mastercam Lathe with Mastercam Mill to get a full range of C-axis Mill/Turn toolpaths. 
Powerful Roughing and Finishing
Fast, efficient bulk material removal and precise finishing are essential to efficient NC programming. Mastercam gives you a variety of techniques to turn all of your parts exactly as you need them.
- Downward roughing.
- No plunge roughing and finishing.
- Intelligent roughing of inside and outside diameters, including roughing to a boundary for castings.
- Optimized center line facing including roughing and finishing.
- Finish contouring (profiling), with optional multiple passes for a better finish.
- Automatically create a finish pass after a rough operation using the same tool.
- Automatically break corners during finish passes without changing your model.
- Set feed rates for desired finish quality.
- Boring, drilling, and point-to-point machining.
- Chuck, part, steady rest, and tailstock detection.
- Click and drag a machining start point anywhere on the model.
- Mastercam’s stock recognition knows what is left after each operation.
- Automatic gouge checking watches the front and back of the tool.
- Open and directly machine a solid model.
- Powerful tool angle control for machines with B-axis tooling arms.
- Mastercam’s Quick Toolpaths let you program parts completely with just a few simple clicks.
Easy Threading and Grooving
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Common threading and grooving techniques combine with Mastercam’s easy operation and additional strategies to give you fast and precise results.
- Click and drag a machining start point anywhere on your model.
- Grooving 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 chamfer.
- Skip over a groove or cavity when roughing or finishing without creating additional geometry.
- Step and stepless grooving.
- Many additional grooving options including zigzag rough grooving, angular grooving, and face grooving.
- Complete threading with multiple starts, diameter calculation, and thread tables.
- Chuck, part, steady rest, and tailstock detection.
- New Multiple chains option makes programming complex groves containing multiple pieces of geometry much easier by programming all selected grooves at once.
- A corner dwell can be engaged at the intersection of wall/corner geometry to a flat bottom groove.
- Set a feed rate specifically for the first plunge move.
- New feed and speed options for finish passes output a separate feed rate and spindle speed for the finish groove passes.
- Mastercam’s new Tool Inspection Position provides a way for you to inspect your tool based on conditions you set. The options available are between grooves, after first plunge, after each depth cut, and after a specified number of plunges.
- Open and directly machine a solid model.
- Mastercam’s Quick Toolpaths let you program parts completely with just a few simple clicks.
C-axis (Mill/Turn) Programming
 Full C-axis machining when combined with Mastercam Mill. |
Mastercam Lathe delivers a standard set of C-axis programming tools, with greatly expanded options when combined with Mastercam Mill.
- Face contour
- Cross contour
- Face drilling
- Cross drilling
- Both Face and Cross drilling include 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 drilling.
- Machine C-axis contours with 3D or flat geometry.