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Meet Mastercam 2022. Since the release of Mastercam 2021, the Mastercam User Experience team has surveyed countless users, conducted usability tests inside and outside of Mastercam headquarters, and spent hours and hours trying to reduce mouse miles. The result is Mastercam 2022—a powerful new release driven largely by customer feedback. let's explore some of the features that you requested—like more advanced roughing in 2D machining and improved workability with meshes—and to find out how the [...]

The much-anticipated release of Mastercam 2022 has arrived! CNC Software has announced the release of Mastercam 2022. Many of the improvements in Mastercam 2022 are directly driven by Mastercam users and shops. Feedback from Public Beta releases, shop visits, customer surveys, and consultation with our expert industry partners create the practical, shop-driven focus that helps ensure Mastercam users’ success. Faster, more flexible multiaxis programming As more shops seek the benefits of a single setup, multiaxis [...]

Ask the average American to estimate how long something is, and they will probably answer in inches, feet, or yards. If you ask someone anywhere else in the world, though, the answer will probably be in millimeters, centimeters, or meters. Today, only three countries use the British Imperial System almost exclusively—the United States of America, Myanmar, and Liberia. The imperial system dates to the seventeenth century and is comprised of units like pounds, feet, and [...]

Mastercam’s “CAD for CAM” Design Tools Provide Flexibility and Ease of Use Mastercam is known for precision NC programming, but it also delivers a suite of shop-tested design tools aimed at getting parts on and off the machine as quickly as possible. Powerful modeling tools include not only 3D surfacing and solids, but hole-filling, direct editing without a solids history, geometry repair, and more. Mastercam Design streamlines and simplifies modeling and editing geometry. It also [...]

We are excited to announce that Cimquest is now an official Mastercam Educational reseller. This will bring educational customers and industrial manufacturers closer together for mutual benefit. With this change, educational institutions gain the benefit of greater connection with our industrial network of manufacturers using Mastercam.  We can form a much-needed conduit between educational and industrial customers. This connection will enable better partnerships between schools and their local industry, which can lead to more effective [...]

Mastercam Mill offers expanded machining flexibility and an increased emphasis on speed and automation. Multiaxis features, 3D enhancements, and 2D high speed toolpaths combine with dozens of additional new enhancements in a software package intended to improve shop floor productivity. Here are some of the significant highlights and new functionality in Mastercam Mill: Mastercam Multiaxis Improvements Maintaining climb and conventional machining is crucial for surface finish and tool life. Controlling Climb and Conventional Cutting for [...]