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New Products
Mastercam 2022 is Now
Released
—CNC Software
CNC Software, Inc., developer of Mastercam announces the release of Mastercam 2022. CNC Software reports that Mastercam 2022 offers more flexible multiaxis improvements, powerful new roughing tools for 2D users, advances in modeling, enhanced intelligence and automation, and much more.
Many of the advancements in Mastercam 2022 are directly driven by Mastercam users and shops. Feedback from Public Beta releases, shop visits, customer surveys, and consultation with their expert industry partners create the practical, shop-driven focus that helps ensure Mastercam users’ success.
Improvements include: OptiRough Toolpath for 2D Users. The 3D High Speed Dynamic OptiRough toolpath is now available for all Mill and Router product levels. This allows users to machine very large cut depths with a bidirectional cutting strategy to remove the maximum amount of material with the minimum number of stepdowns. Dynamic OptiRough allows you to create a single toolpath to machine a part, instead of creating multiple 2D operations to achieve the same goal. The toolpath is collision aware of the part.
Faster, more flexible multiaxis programming. Mastercam 2022 adds new techniques and strategies such as the Unified Multiaxis toolpath which allows you to select multiple pieces of input geometry to generate the toolpath
pattern. Using those geometry choices, the toolpath picks the best algorithm to calculate the path. Multi-pass on De- burr toolpaths supports flat chamfered and rounded edges.
Mastercam 2022 introduces pow- erful mesh creation and editing ca- pabilities that include the ability to reconstruct models from scanned data. And the Overflow UV function allows you to replace multiple surfaces with inconsistent flows with a single surface for flowline toolpaths.
A suite of system-wide enhance- ments helps automate tasks and speed your workflow. New automatic region chaining uses a “smart” approach to auto-select logical chained areas.
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