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27 August 2012

Product News

Mastercam’s Design Tools Provide Flexibility and Ease of Use

Mastercam is known for NC programming, but it also delivers a suite of shop-tested design tools including 3D surfacing and solids. The streamlined CAD engine makes design work easier than ever before.

Mastercam Design streamlines modeling and editing geometry. It also supports advanced geometry creation, including NURBS curves and surfaces, 2D and 3D associative dimensioning, surface extension, blending, trimming, splitting, variable filleting, solid modeling, hybrid modeling, and much more.

A few new enhancements to Mastercam Design X6 are:

Region Chaining

Mastercam’s 2D Dynamic Milling is greatly simplified with the introduction of Region Chaining. Users now define the area for a 2D dynamic milling toolpath by simply selecting the face to be machined and face to be avoided. Mastercam treats the selections (even on open pockets) as complete machining chains.

Intersecting and Trimming Solid Edges

Mastercam automatically recognizes intersections between wireframe geometry and solid edges.

Enhanced Solid Trim to Surface

New options give users even greater control over their solid/surface trim results.

Solid History Removal

Mastercam lets users strip the list of operations or features from a solid model, leaving it as a “brick” to prevent changes and protect their model.

Transform (Xform) Fit

Mastercam can “nest” geometry along a vector. This feature can be particularly helpful when users are fitting parts between clamps and fixtures.

For more information on Mastercam’s Design programming, please visit www.mastercamdesigntools.com

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