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CNC Solutions heralds shopfloor productivity improvements offered by Mastercam X3 October 2008
 
Mastercam X3 offers expanded machining flexibility and an increased emphasis on speed and automation. Feature based machining, new high speed tool motion, and faster toolpath generation combine with other new enhancements to improve shopfloor productivity.

Almost every shop deals with solid models, and Mastercam delivers a powerful way to automatically mill and drill these parts. Valuable for experienced power users and easy enough for new users, feature based machining (FBM) evaluates a part’s features and automatically designs an effective machining strategy.

2D high speed toolpaths, although optimised for high speed cutting and hard milling, offer many additional benefits including superior finish and longer tool life, says CNC Solutions.

Substantially faster multi-axis toolpaths combined with enhanced control lets users get more out of these powerful toolpaths than ever before.

The X3 package brings the most popular Mastercam toolpaths directly into SolidWorks. Designers can now program those parts with CAM toolpaths in the same interface.

 
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Celia Cadwallader
 
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