Mastercam’s Maintenance Enhancements

Spotlight on Nesting

CNC Software’s latest Maintenance deliverables for Mastercam X Router CAD/CAM software provide increased functionality in many areas, as well as improvements to nesting. Mastercam’s nesting enhancements introduce significant new capabilities, improved sorting options, speed improvements, enhanced nesting reports, and much more.

Several upgrades to the sorting options have improved Mastercam’s toolpath nesting. The user now has more control over how nested parts are machined. Typically the order in which the parts are nested is the order in which they are machined. Mastercam nests larger parts first, and then fills in the remaining space with smaller parts. It also offers more features for sorting, including advanced cluster sorting.

Mastercam’s nesting reports provide users a nested sheet report and individual part information. They have been reformatted from a text-based file to a PDF report with graphics.

With the latest release of Mastercam, significant speed improvements have been obtained in certain cases by breaking the Automatically attach geometry option into two separate options. One option automatically attaches just the chains used in the toolpath cluster, while a second option includes additional geometry contained within the outer boundary of the nested part. This can greatly improve Mastercam’s nesting speed.

Other features of Mastercam’s nesting include:

• Separate toolpath nesting and geometry nesting
• Simplified parameter pages
• Infrequently used parameters segregated on a nesting configuration dialog
• Easy access to batch nesting via a toolbar button
• Added ability to import multiple external MCX files into toolpath nesting
• Improvements to rectangular nesting including the ability to save defaults, save scrap, and more.

For more information on Mastercam’s nesting features, please visit http://www.mastercamrouter.com or contact your local Mastercam Reseller.