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By May 29, 2020No Comments
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HIGHLIGHTS

Mastercam 2021 helps streamline your entire process, from job setup to job completion.

These highlights are only a sample of the developments in Mastercam 2021. The latest version of our CAD/CAM software offers many new features, advancements, and time-saving innovations. Since different tools are important to different shops, you can visit whatsnew.mastercam.com for a more in-depth presentation of the latest improvements in Mastercam. As a current Mastercam customer you can access the download at my.mastercam.com

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DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION

Detecting and Creating Custom Holes

Reflow UV allows you to redefine the flow by specifyinga rotation angle or new boundary curves.

Saving Files as 3D PDFs

Mastercam 2021 includes an option for you tosave all the currently visible entities and toolpaths inyour part as a 3D PDF — a dynamic display of an embedded 3D model.

Saving Files as PDFs

Saving Files as 3D PDFs

Mastercam 2021 includes an option for you tosave all the currently visible entities and toolpaths inyour part as a 3D PDF — a dynamic display of an embedded 3D model.

Saving Files as PDFs

Redefining Surface Flow

Reflow UV allows you to redefine the flow by specifyinga rotation angle or new boundary curves.

Display All Chaining Arrows

A Display all selection arrows button in the Wireframe Chaining and Solid Chaining dialog boxes has replaced the Unselect all button.

Display All Chaining Arrows

Display All Chaining Arrows

A Display all selection arrows button in the Wireframe Chaining and Solid Chaining dialog boxes has replaced the Unselect all button.

Display All Chaining Arrows

Mastercam 2021 HIGHLIGHTS for mill

Checking Tool and Holder AgainstModel Geometry

A new function, Check Tool Reach, is available to viewwhere the tool can and cannot reach. The selectedgeometry is then colored based on the selected preview options.

Checking Tool and Holder

Customizable Multi-SegmentDrill Cycle

Advanced Drill is a customizable multi-segment drill cycle that is useful for spot drilling, deep hole drilling, and back spot facing.

Customizable Multi-Segment Drill Cycle

Pre-Machining Corners forDynamic Mill Toolpath

A new page, Corner Pretreatment, has been addedto the Dynamic Mill toolpath. Use this option to set machining parameters on any corners in the selected machining regions before machining the rest of the part.

Pre-Machining Corners

Skip Pockets Based on Tool Diameter

The Skip Pockets Smaller Than option is availablefor 2D Dynamic Mill. Additionally, for Dynamic Mill and OptiRough, you have the option to Skip All Pockets.

Skip Pockets

New Way of Machining Chamfer Holes

Mastercam 2021 features a new toolpath, Chamfer Drill. Using tools with a tip angle, the Chamfer Drill toolpath chamfers holes after calculating the correct depth based on the desired chamfer width or depth.

New Chamfering Holes

Multisurface Blend Enhancements

You can now create Equidistant Passes. The 3Doption is located in the Project drop-down on theCut Parameters page. When selected, Mastercam keeps the created passes equidistant in 3D, addingcuts in steep areas.

Multisurface blend

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 Mastercam for solidworks

Enhanced Leads and TransitionFunctionality

The Linking Parameters page for 3D HST toolpaths includes two new options: Apply transitions and Extension.

Enhanced Leads

New 3+2 Automatic Roughing Toolpath

Advanced Drill is a customizable multi-segment drill cycle that is useful for spot drilling, deep hole drilling, and back spot facing.

New 3 plus 2

Raster Toolpath Enhancements

You now have an option to have Mastercam automatically set different angles to maximize the length of the cut pattern and/or minimize the connecting moves of a Raster toolpath.

Raster Toolpath

Multiaxis Roughing – Pocketing

The Multiaxis Roughing toolpath has been enhanced and renamed to Multiaxis Pocketing. It now includes undercut, wall finishing, and floor finishing options.

MX Roughing

Extending Edge Curves for Morph and Parallel Toolpaths

We have added the Extend edge curve option to the Morph toolpath to give you better control over the generated cut pattern results. Using this option, you can create a different toolpath without drawing additional geometry.

Extending Edge Curves

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Machining Custom Thread Forms

Mastercam 2021 introduces a new toolpath, Custom Thread, to support custom thread forms such asRope, Buttress, Square, and Trapezoidal.

Custom Threads

Support for Collets and Collet Chucks

Mastercam Mill-Turn now supports collet chucks and collets as individual component types. This greatly expands the range of machines that can be directly supported by Mill-Turn.

Collets

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Solutions for Swiss Machining

Mastercam offers solutions for a wide variety of today’s top Swiss machines including Star, Citizen, Tsugami,Swistek, Hanwha, Ganesh, DMG MORI, Nexturn, and more. Speak with your Mastercam representative for details.