Mastercam Mill X3 offers productivity and automation enhancements

Various aspects of the Mastercam Mill have been upgraded. Mastercam Mill X3 Feature Based Machining (FBM) delivers a powerful way to automatically mill and drill solid models. FBM evaluates a part’s features and automatically designs an effective machining strategy.It can detect solid machining features for pocketing, contouring and drilling routines. FBM will machine pockets using new 2D HST roughing, rest mill, and finish operations; automatically create drilled, tapped, counterbore, and countersink holes; automatically perform spot drilling and pre-drilling based on user controlled settings. All toolpaths are fully associative and editable after creation. Although optimised for high speed cutting and hard milling, new 2D toolpaths offer many additional benefits including superior finish and longer tool life. Mastercam X3 Mill also improves multi-axis toolpath speed and introduces new high speed tool path controls that make programming more efficient. Both the Port5ax and Flow5ax tool paths include a new feature that allows an overlap/blend to be added at the beginning and end of a toolpath.