Tolland, CT –Mastercam X3 Mill offers expanded machining
flexibility and an increased emphasis on speed and automation. Feature
Based Machining, new high speed tool motion, and faster toolpath
generation combine with dozens of additional new enhancements in a
package intended to improve shop floor productivity.

Here are some of the most significant highlights and new functionality in Mastercam X3 Mill:

Feature Based Machining (FBM) – Almost every shop deals with
solid models, and Mastercam delivers a powerful way to automatically
mill and drill these parts. Valuable for experienced power users and
easy enough for new users, FBM evaluates a part’s features and
automatically designs an effective machining strategy. FBM can detect
solid machining features for pocketing, contouring, and drilling
routines. FBM will machine pockets using new 2D HST roughing, rest
mill, and finish operations; automatically create drilled, tapped,
counterbore, and countersink holes; automatically perform spot drilling
and pre-drilling based on user controlled settings; and much more. And
all toolpaths are fully associative and editable after creation.

2D High Speed Toolpaths – The success of Mastercam’s 3D high
speed toolpaths leads to new high speed machining expressly for 2D
machining. Although optimized for high speed cutting and hard milling,
these new 2D toolpaths offer many additional benefits including
superior finish and longer tool life. These new toolpaths can make your
processes more efficient and automated, while minimizing programming
and cycle times.

Enhanced Multiaxis Functions – Mastercam X3 improves multiaxis
toolpath speed and introduces new High Speed Toolpath controls that
make programming more efficient. Both the Port5ax and Flow5ax toolpaths
include a new feature that allows an overlap/blend to be added at the
beginning and end of a toolpath.

Mastercam in SolidWorks – This powerful new X3 package brings
the most popular Mastercam toolpaths directly into SolidWorks.
Designers who work with the world’s leading CAD system can now program
those parts with the world’s leading CAM toolpaths in the same
interface. Mastercam in SolidWorks includes a suite of cutting
strategies, including Feature Based Machining, high speed machining,
and a set of automated cleanup toolpaths. This package will be released
shortly after Mastercam X3.

Other new enhancements include:

     – Import full SolidWorks history trees

     – Expanded support for cutting STL files

     – CAD enhancements

     – 3D high speed toolpath enhancements 

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