FOCUS ON EFFICIENCY AND SPEED Mastercam 2018 brings a new suite of programming tools focused on delivering speed, automation, and efficiency for all machining jobs and offers new 2D/3D milling features, design improvements, powerful turning and mill-turn enhancements, and more. Milling advances Stock awareness has been added to select 2D toolpaths and allows tool motion on the top, bottom, or both values of the stock. This provides a safer and more optimised tool motion. You can also optimise finish passes based on your rough stock, giving you more efficient and safer tool motion. The workflow for all 3D high speed toolpaths has been streamlined and gives you fine control over exactly where to cut. High speed hybrid toolpaths now offer smoothing controls and deliver a finer finish, requiring less handwork. You can learn more about the dozens of additional enhancements to the Milling suite at whatsnew.mastercam.com. Expanded turning and mill-turn If you work with stringy materials such as aluminum or plastic, Mastercam’s new chip break control prevents problems by allowing you to set length and time conditions, retract, and dwell options. mill-turn machine definitions now contain tailstock and quill components, tailored to your machine. Exclusive to Mastercam, a new set of turning strategies automate toolpath generation and support for Sandvik Coromant CoroTurn prime inserts and PrimeTurning method. PrimeTurning provides superior metal removal rate, productivity gains of over 50%, and increased tool life in a variety of materials. New CAD tools for the shop floor Shops can model their own designs, but they also get in models that need to be corrected or prepped for machining. Mastercam’s CAD functions are designed for the machinist. Angle Sweep improves the creation of more complex wireframe functions and when creating or editing primitives, there are now on-screen sweep and rotate controls which can snap to the AutoCursor positions of existing entities. To make roll and unroll results easier to predict, seam control lets you visually rotate a seam to see how geometry will respond, as well as snap to AutoCursor positions. Hole axis makes it easier to work with a large number of holes, especially holes with matching diameters that are selected as a group. For more information on Mastercam 2018 visit www.mastercam.com. You can also now enter 0.0 for the Chamfer width when using a chamfer tool. This allows you to chain the top or bottom rail of an existing chamfer and place the chamfer where you desire using the top or bottom offset value. TOOL ENHANCEMENT CHAMFER TOOL OFFSET SHAPING THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURINGTM || roy@prosoft.co.nz || 021 798 175 FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS, MASTERCAM HAS BEEN AT THE LEADING EDGE OF CAM It isn’t easy being #1. We’ve earned our place by providing unparalleled support and by continuously innovating for the benefit of you – our customers. Together we’re all responsible for defining the next generation of manufacturing, and we’re excited because we help you get there. Also available in the Mastercam 2018 release is: • My Mastercam gives you access to your profile, Mastercam’s social media outlets, your reseller information, the Mastercam Forum, and other helpful information. • Streamlined workflow with improved plane management, level and geometry control, toolpath analysis and more. • Model prep and solid model enhancements such as multiple undo/redo for up to 25 functions and solid sweep has more options and controls than ever. • The collision control and the multi-axis link safety zone pages for multi-axis toolpaths have been redesigned for Mastercam 2018. • Common direction has been added to the tool axis control page for multi-axis toolpaths and keeps the tool at a uniform tilt angle to reduce tool and machine motion. • And many other productivity improvements across the entire product. MASTERCAM 2018 In previous versions, you could only modify the tip offset when chamfer milling, allowing you to control how far past the bottom chamfer rail the tip of the chamfer tool extends. In 2018, Mastercam supports options to offset from the top or the bottom of your chamfer rail. Top offset places the full diameter of the chamfer tool at a specified distance above the top rail of the chamfer. Bottom offset amount ensures the tip of the tool clears the bottom of the chamfer. Width has also been renamed to Chamfer width. PrimeTurning provides superior metal removal rate, productivity gains of over 50%, and increased tool life in a variety of materials. R O B O T I C S www.engineeringnews.co.nz 27
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