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What's New in Mastercam X4 Mill
A Focus on Speed and Ease of Use
Mastercam X4 is here with a new suite of CAD/CAM tools focused on delivering speed and efficiency for your machining jobs.
Mastercam X4 introduces a new 2D High Speed Toolpath, Dynamic Mill. This gives you the ability to utilize the entire flute length of the cutting tool while maintaining more consistent cutting conditions. This technique saves cutting time while reducing wear on your tooling and machines. Dynamic Mill also offers:
- “Micro lift” retracts that avoid excess heat buildup
- Powerful entry methods, including a custom entry method to program complex shapes
- Custom feeds and speeds to enhance productivity and generate safe motion
- Flexible retract options to keep the tool down in smaller parts and supports rapid retracts on larger parts
Superior 3D Finish video
Mastercam’s 3D surface toolpath refinement lets you achieve dramatically superior finishes on complex parts. This new utility gives you greater control over the toolpath finish motion, delivering smoother finishes and more optimized cycle times than conventional methods allow.
Multiaxis Improvements
- Drill 5-axis and Curve 5-axis dialogs are tree-style, stepping programmers through programming choices
- Circle Mill 5-axis is a new multiaxis toolpath. This toolpath creates circular pockets normal to a surface for inserting fasteners and similar features. It can also generate round holes where drilling is not desirable.
- The new Minimum Tilt option lets you control tool motion when the tool or holder encounters a potential collision with a selected surface.
A highlight of Mastercam X4 is multi-threading. This gives you the power to segment complex tasks in a multi-core computer, delivering faster processing as well as letting users continue to work while toolpaths are processed in the background.
More Powerful Feature-Based Machining (FBM)
Mastercam adds more automation to its FBM suite with large hole milling, automated pre-drilling, hole mapping and slug cutting.
Dynamic Planes
Mastercam’s new Dynamic Plane creation streamlines and simplifies all plane creation with easy click-and-drag tools.
