Powerful Roughing and Finishing
Fast, efficient bulk material removal and precise finishing are essential to efficient NC programming. Mastercam gives you a variety of techniques to turn all of your parts exactly as you need them.
- Downward roughing.
- No plunge roughing and finishing.
- Intelligent roughing of inside and outside diameters, including roughing to a boundary for castings.
- Optimized center line facing including roughing and finishing.
- Finish contouring (profiling), with optional multiple passes for a better finish.
- Automatically create a finish pass after a rough operation using the same tool.
- Automatically break corners during finish passes without changing your model.
- Set feed rates for desired finish quality.
- Boring, drilling, and point-to-point machining.
- Chuck, part, steady rest, and tailstock detection.
- Click and drag a machining start point anywhere on the model.
- Mastercam’s stock recognition knows what is left after each operation.
- Automatic gouge checking watches the front and back of the tool.
- Open and directly machine a solid model.
- Powerful tool angle control for machines with B-axis tooling arms.
- Mastercam's Quick Toolpaths let you program parts completely with just a few simple clicks.
| Roughing | ||
 Downward roughing |
 No plunge roughing |
 Roughing to an outer boundary (casting) |
 Automated facing from the center line out |
 ID roughing |
 Stock recognition knows what is left after each operation |
| Finishing | ||
 Finishing with automated no plunge option |
 Multiple contouring for complete finishing |
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