Do you have a lighter-duty machine sitting in your shop and do you ever wonder if you can take advantage of Mastercam’s Dynamic Motion toolpaths with it? It might be older, smaller, or just have a different purpose than some of your more expensive machining centers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get the most out of it. Mastercam can help you to do just that! Dynamic Motion creates toolpaths with a smaller step-over, but a [...]
We were recently talking with a representative from a tooling company. He was familiar with Mastercam’s Dynamic Motion, having seen it in several shops and even having used it to help make his tools look their best. The thing he liked most about it, he said, was the consistency. Consistent chip load, constant step over, spindle speed, consistent performance. Then he asked this: “With everything being so consistent with those toolpaths, what exactly is dynamic [...]
Here are a few of the improvements to the Mastercam Mill-Turn product for X9: TNRC Control for B-Axis Turning – The Tool Angle dialog box now contains some new options. They tell Mastercam which quadrant you touched off your tool in. When setting up B-axis head machines, you can touch a tool off in several ways. If you are creating a toolpath, and the tool’s control point is not what you want, you can now [...]
Mastercam X9 continues to build upon its powerful Multiaxis functionality. Program your multiaxis equipment with confidence and ease using the new Multiaxis Link operation. Multiaxis link ensures reposition moves between 2- through 5-axis operations are safe and collision-free. Multiaxis link is an operation that takes a list of toolpath operations and a safety zone shape as input. The safety zone can be represented with a cylinder, sphere, or rectangle defined manually or with the autofind [...]
In the Mastercam X9 release, there have been many System Enhancements that can be seen throughout the entire Mastercam Family of Products. This blog post will cover some of the big highlights, but you also visit whatsnew.mastercam.com for a list of everything in this new release. The Plane Manager is now a modeless dialog box which means you can leave the Plane Manager on the screen as you work in Mastercam’s primary interface. You can even move [...]
Did you know that with the release of Mastercam X9 customers who purchase or update to Mastercam Mill X9 or Mastercam Lathe X9 will also be able to use the corresponding version of Mastercam® for SOLIDWORKS®? This really does give you the "Best of Both Worlds." Many of part files you receive with Mastercam are generated with SOLIDWORKS so for those of you who also use SOLIDWORKS this gives you the opportunity to use whichever product best [...]
Did you think Dynamic motion was only for XYZ axis milling? Not so! Look at these pictures showing the rough and finish milling of 8 blades in 4140 Rc 30 using Dynamic Motion on a 4th axis. We partnered with Sandvik Coromant to test run this part on their Mazak Integrex and using Sandvik Coromant CoroMill Plura HD end mills. Come check out the Integrex and several other CNC machines dance and make [...]
Mastercam X9 includes many new features and enhancements to the Design side of the software. Here are just a few of them: Dynamic Xform The Dynamic Xform function allows users to switch between gnomon manipulation and geometry manipulation mode at any time without having to reselect geometry. Simply click the button that appears in the lower left of the gnomon to change modes. This will greatly enhance the usefulness and workflow of this important function. [...]
