Mastercam 2025

  Mastercam customers, get ready to elevate your machining capabilities with the latest B-Axis Contour Turning Enhancements! These advancements are designed to provide you with greater precision, efficiency, and flexibility in your machining processes. Here’s a closer look at the benefits: 1. Enhanced Tool Angle Controls The new enhancements offer improved control over tool angles, allowing for more precise adjustments. This means you can achieve better surface finishes and more accurate cuts, reducing the need [...]

A-Axis Contour Turning in Mastercam Mill-Turn Exploring the New A-axis Contour Turning Toolpath in Mastercam Mastercam continues to innovate with its latest addition: the A-axis Contour Turning toolpath. This new feature builds on the B-axis Contour toolpath introduced in Mastercam 2023, enhancing support for rotary contour turning operations. Key Features and Benefits The A-axis Contour Turning toolpath shares many similarities with its predecessor, the B-axis Contour toolpath, but with a significant difference: it utilizes Y-axis [...]

Y-Axis Turning Support in Mill-Turn in Mastercam 2025 Mastercam 2025 introduces Mastercam Mill-Turn support for Y-axis Turning. All turning toolpaths except Custom Thread and B-axis Contour Turning support Y-axis functionality. Automatically create a set of planes that you can use to create your toolpath with the proper tool orientation and spindle origin. Approach and retract strategies have been enhanced to include Y-first strategies, along with the ability to designate tool assemblies as Y-axis compatible in [...]

Safety Zone Improvements for Hole Making in Mastercam 2025 The updated Safety Zone feature now incorporates a background mesh for all defined shapes within the Safety Zone panel. This mesh plays a crucial role in the linking calculation, facilitating more accurate and efficient tool-angle motion for linking moves. The newly introduced parameters include: Linear Tolerance Value: Provides precise control over allowable deviations in linear motion. Blending Distance: Ensures smooth transitions between different motion segments. Smoothing [...]

Solid Hole Selection - Mastercam 2025 Mastercam 2025 introduces significant enhancements to the Solid Hole Selection feature, which is integral for those utilizing Hole Making and Process Hole toolpaths. The changes associated with this update create a more efficient, precise, and controllable hole selection. The Solid Hole Selection update encompasses many new behaviors for selecting holes such as simplified selection rules, multiple hole types are allowed in a single toolpath, and segment selections from [...]