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2024 TOP TEN FEATURES Explore the new Mastercam features you’ve been waiting for! This brochure runs through a few top features across the suite of Products that will enhance your productivity and profitability. But that’s not all Mastercam 2024 has to offer. Visit whatsnew.mastercam.com to see everything Mastercam’s latest game changing installment has to offer.
1 Three major enhancements have been added to the B-Axis Contour Turning operation: Ability to manually edit tool axis vectors, manually edit usable insert area, and adjust stock function. This allows for much more in-process control and understanding of the motion of the B-axis head from within the toolpath interface. B-Axis Contour Enhancements Productivity | Mill-Turn
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Turret Mounted Angled Milling Heads
Users can now use turret-mounted angled milling heads in Mill-Turn operations. This lets you create toolpaths on angled planes using turret-mounted tools. Enjoy enhanced productivity and ease of use for both milling and turning operations within the Mill-Turn product.
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Process Hole Improvements
The Process Hole toolpath applies previously defined processes to a part’s solid hole features, which consists of one or more holemaking operations’ built-in functions library. The ability to import applicable processes into the working part file will save time and money while maintaining consistency with your processes.
4 A “display graphical elements” button has been added to the holemaking and multiaxis toolpath dialog boxes. This control permits the user to show or hide graphical elements, such as selected geometry colors and graphical planes, depending Holemaking Enhancements Productivity | Mill, Router, Multiaxis, Mill-Turn
on the toolpath type. This allows for more customized control on a hole-by-hole basis or across the entire holemaking toolpath.
5 Introduced in Mastercam 2023 for Dynamic OptiRough and Area Roughing (3D), waterline toolpaths are now aware of undercut stock conditions, which results in improvement to the toolpath motion and less air cutting. This option has been renamed from Detect undercut stock to Detect stock break through. Waterline – Detect Undercuts, Add Partial Cuts Performance | Mill
6 The Dynamic Mill, Face, and Dynamic OptiRough toolpaths now include a new Maximize engagement option on the Cut Parameters page. When selected, it produces more nominal chips, minimizes the number of small chips, and helps prevent problematic stand-alone material slivers. Additionally, Mastercam moves towards the entered Stepover as quickly as possible. This helps extend tool life, reduces vibration, optimizes heat generation, promotes healthy chip evacuation, and reduces overall machine wear. Dynamic Motion – Maximize Engagement Productivity | Mill
This enhancement to saving and loading defaults allows a user to specify individual files and operations to load from/ save to. The user can quickly switch between different default sets for different toolpath goals or transfer operational data from file to file. This delivers time savings, an enhanced user experience, and drastically improved functionality, flexibility, and overall usefulness. Productivity | General, Systems 7
Save/Load Toolpath Defaults List
8 Mastercam’s traditional on-screen gnomon has been augmented with the new Gview cube, which is a more graphical way to show plane orientation. With many interactive features, the optional Gview cube is relative to the WCS by default and features many options that allow the user to control the cube and on-screen representation of the part. Gview Cube – New On-Screen Gnomon Productivity | General, Systems
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Machine Group Setup Stock Updates
Three new easier, more intuitive selection methods have been added, including Add from two corner, Add rectangular stock, and Add cylindrical stock. Stock definition is the first thing a user must do, and these new stock definition methods simplify and speed up the process while creating a better user experience.
10 New solid hole enhancements include matching edge treatments for top and bottom edges, changing the direction of existing through holes, and creating new solid operations from a single existing hole operation. This represents more flexibility, fewer clicks, and time savings when creating geometry for holemaking operations. Solid Hole Enhancements Productivity | General, Systems
THE CHOICE IS YOURS When you choose Mastercam, you get more than a license to run CAD/CAM software. You secure flexible options to empower your business and manufacturing operations — with the added value of shop-tested technology, responsive support, and a voice to guide future CAD/CAM developments.
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