PRESS RELEASE
Illustrations available upon request
For Immediate
Release
July 2007
Contact:
Phone: (860) 875-5006
Fax: (860) 872-1565
michellen@mastercam.com
Mastercam X2 Mill
Delivers Power, Speed, and New Opportunities
High Speed Toolpaths
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Mastercam X2 introduces Radial and Spiral finishing toolpath
styles rounding out the high speed suite.
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Rest Material functionality (initially implemented for the
Rest Roughing toolpath in Mastercam X) has been added to high speed finishing
toolpaths, except in Horizontal Area. Remaining sock can be calculated from a
roughing tool, another operation, all operations, or from an STL file. This
allows the Rest Material to be calculated using a variety of toolpath
strategies, for maximum usefulness.
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Rib Cuts have been added to the Surface Finish Flowline,
Surface Rough Flowline, and 5-Axis Flowline toolpaths. The rib cuts are
determined by a number of slice cuts perpendicular to the flowline curves of
the surface. When you choose the cut direction, the software will slice the
flowline curves and create a toolpath at the midpoints of each slice. This is
very useful when a single pass is desired along multiple surfaces.
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“Peel Milling” delivers powerful high speed cutting to 2D
projects, moving the tool in and “peeling” away material, layer by layer.
Trochoidal Motion
Trochoidal motion
in high speed toolpaths assists with the machining of harder materials.
Trochoidal motion maintains an acceptable tool load by allowing predictable
tool contact with the material. This optimizes tool wear and reliability. Mastercam
gives you the ability to control when and how the trochoidal motion occurs in a
toolpath.
SolidWorks Assembly Files
Mastercam now has
the capability to bring in whole SolidWorks assembly files into Mastercam. Prior
to this, Mastercam could only import individual part files. Now, Mastercam can
import SolidWorks .DLDASM files, which are files that reference other part
files in the overall assembly.
Additional Milling Enhancements
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Z-Oscillation contouring has been added to minimize tool
wear. Z Oscillation is especially useful when cutting thinner materials or
laminated materials.
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A scallop height calculator has been added as an additional
method for automatically entering stepover values.
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Support for SolidEdge® V19, AutoCAD® 2007, and
SolidWorks 2007.
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Mastercam will now check an operation’s tool holder for
interference with the part. It calculates areas where there is interference
between the holder and part, and tells you the minimum tool length required to
avoid it.
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