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Mastercam is the most widely used CAM software worldwide* and remains the program of choice among CNC programmers. Mastercam Mill X4 is the next generation of our popular program, delivering the most comprehensive milling package with powerful new toolpaths and techniques.

The Core of Your Machining Needs

Mastercam gives your shop the best possible foundation for fast and efficient milling. From general purpose methods such as optimized pocketing to highly specialized toolpaths like 5-axis turbine cutting, Mastercam ensures that you’re ready for any job.

And Mastercam Mill can grow with your business. Start with what you need, and upgrade to new machining techniques as your needs grow.

2D Toolpaths

Contouring, Drilling, and Pocketing

2D machining ranges from the very simple to the very complex. Mastercam delivers all the tools you need for precise control over all aspects of 2D machining.

Feature Based Machining (FBM)

Almost every shop deals with solid models, and Mastercam delivers a powerful way to automatically mill and drill these parts. Valuable for experienced power users and easy enough for new users, FBM evaluates a part’s features and automatically designs an effective machining strategy.

With just a few simple clicks, Mastercam FBM will:

Mastercam’s new Feature-Based Machining makes it significantly easier to machine prismatic solids by automating the programming process.

• Detect solid machining features for the chosen FBM operation type, based on your selection criteria.
• Machine pockets using 2D roughing, rest mill, and finish operations.
• Automatically support closed, open, nested, and through pockets and set the right toolpath options.
• Optionally create a separate finish toolpath for floors and walls.
• Automatically identify when external machining is required and enable you to activate or deactivate it.
• Automatically identify when facing is required.
• Automatically create drilled, tapped, counterbore, and countersink holes.
• Automatically perform deep drilling, spot drilling, pre-drilling, tool selection, and tool creation if needed.
• Advanced controls to drill blind, through, co-axial, and split holes.
• New Dynamic Plane creation streamlines and simplifies all plane creation with easy click-and-drag tools.
• Select the appropriate tools for all operations, either from your preferred tools list or from libraries you specify.

The time savings when using Mastercam FBM are dramatic, but its power isn’t just in the click-and-go ease. All toolpaths are fully associative and editable after creation. This gives you the broad flexibility to make changes at any time, and ensures that your parts will be cut exactly as you want them.

3D Toolpaths

Powerful Roughing

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

Versatile Finishing

Mastercam’s suite of 3D finishing tools lets you choose the best method for the results you need.

Clean-up Machining

Leftover material causes extra handwork and time. Mastercam automates leftover material identification and removal, providing you with finer finishes.

Multi-Axis Toolpaths

A Wide Range of Multiaxis Strategies

Multiaxis machining can dramatically increase a shop’s competitiveness, and Mastercam’s multiaxis add-in offers a wide range of multiaxis machining strategies – both basic and advanced. With Mastercam, you have complete control over the three crucial elements of multiaxis machining: toolpath types, tool motion, and tool axis. And you get that control in a clear, easy to understand way.

High-Speed Machining

Faster Turnaround and Superior Finish

High Speed Machining (HSM) is a powerful cutting method that combines 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 technique, even if you don’t have a high speed machine.

What’s New in Mastercam X4

A Focus on Speed and Ease of Use

Mastercam X4 is here with a new suite of CAD/CAM tools focused on delivering speed and efficiency for your machining jobs.

Dynamic Mill

Mastercam X4 introduces a new 2D High Speed Toolpath, Dynamic Mill. This gives you the ability to utilize the entire flute length of the cutting tool while maintaining more consistent cutting conditions. This technique saves cutting time while reducing wear on your tooling and machines. Dynamic Mill also offers:

• “Micro lift” retracts that avoid excess heat buildup
• Powerful entry methods, including a custom entry method to program complex shapes
• Custom feeds and speeds to enhance productivity and generate safe motion
• Flexible retract options to keep the tool down in smaller parts and supports rapid retracts on larger parts

Superior 3D Finish

Mastercam’s 3D surface toolpath refinement lets you achieve dramatically superior finishes on complex parts. This new utility gives you greater control over the toolpath finish motion, delivering smoother finishes and more optimized cycle times than conventional methods allow.

Multiaxis Improvements

• Drill 5-axis and Curve 5-axis dialogs are tree-style, stepping programmers through programming choices
• Circle Mill 5-axis is a new multiaxis toolpath. This toolpath creates circular pockets normal to a surface for inserting fasteners and similar features. It can also generate round holes where drilling is not desirable.
• The new Minimum Tilt option lets you control tool motion when the tool or holder encounters a potential collision with a selected surface.

Multi-Threading

A highlight of Mastercam X4 is multi-threading. This gives you the power to segment complex tasks in a multi-core computer, delivering faster processing as well as letting users continue to work while toolpaths are processed in the background.

More Powerful Feature-Based Machining (FBM)

Mastercam adds more automation to its FBM suite with large hole milling, automated pre-drilling, hole mapping and slug cutting.

Dynamic Planes

Mastercam’s new Dynamic Plane creation streamlines and simplifies all plane creation with easy click-and-drag tools.

More Information

For more information please visit the Mastercam Mill Mini-site

or you can view the brochure PDF by clicking the link below.

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* Source: CIMdata, Inc.