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    Mastercam’s full associativity gives you the power to capture your knowledge and build on your experience. Once you program a part – any part – you can modify any element of the job and immediately get updated toolpaths without starting over. And Mastercam’s intelligent NC programming lets you build a library of …

Congratulations on your purchase of the Mastercam Handbook Volume 1. This book was developed and tested over several years as part of a course to teach machinists how to program CNC machine tools with Mastercam. It assumes you have a working knowledge of machining and CNC’s, including tooling, work-holding, and …

Hole making is one of the most common machining tasks and when programmed poorly, a significant amount of a shop’s profit can be lost. Figure 1 represents a simple aluminum block with various hole sizes on various levels. Typically, all of these holes would be started with a spot drill …

  Mastercam’s 2D high speed dynamic milling toolpaths utilize the entire flute length of their cutting tools to achieve great efficiency in milling. They are designed to maximize material removal while minimizing tool wear. Additional benefits you gain by using high speed dynamic milling toolpaths include: ƒ – Tool burial …

  Each tutorial systematically walks through all the procedures from Geometry Creation to Toolpath instructions, Verification and G Code Generation. In nearly 800 pages, a wide range of topics are covered including 2D Geometry and Solids Creation, Drilling, Tapping, Contouring, Pocketing, Circle Milling and Slot Milling. It also contains 2D …

Objectives – Creating the 3D wireframe in diferent construction planes – Creating draft   surface at a height of 2n with  a draft angle of 5 degrees – Creating a sweep surface – Creating fillet surfaces at the top of the part – Creating revolved surface – Creating fillet surfaces …

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The Lathe Training Tutorial is ideal for beginners and current Mastercam users alike. The tutorials introduce 2D, and later 3D geometry creation along with detailed coverage of 2D toolpaths such as Face, Rough, Finish, Drilling, Grooving, Grooving on an angle, Inside Boring, Cutoff, Threading and Canned Cycles for Rough and …

  This tutorial covers Mastercam’s 5-Axis toolpath functionality. To apply these toolpaths to a 5-Axis machine tool, a customized post processor for your machine is required. There are no default 5-Axis post processors included with Mastercam due to the variation in multi-axis machine configurations. Contact your Mastercam reseller to request …

    This tutorial introduces the concepts of multiaxis machining, beginning with the machine architecture and ending with multiaxis toolpath creation. Multiaxis toolpaths are basically the familiar contour, pocket, and surface toolpaths in X,Y, and Z, with rotational motion added in A, B, and C. The available axes vary based …