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News Release from: Mastercam | Subject: Mastercam X2 MR2
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 November 2007
CAD/CAM benefits shown in Web site
videos
Narrated videos highlight the new functionality in Mastercam X2 MR2, including new peel milling, new saw toolpath, powerful machining boundaries, new surface creation, and more.
CNC Software has added more videos to the Multimedia section of the Mastercam Web site This page explores some of the latest features in the Mastercam CAM software family with downloadable video demonstrations, narrated overviews, and documents highlighting powerful new tools
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 8 Oct 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Mastercam X2 MR2 What's New video was just added with the recent release of Mastercam X2's second Maintenance Release.
These narrated videos highlight the new functionality in Mastercam X2 MR2, including new peel milling, new saw toolpath, powerful machining boundaries, new surface creation, and more.
The Introducing Mastercam X2 video feature not only what's new for existing customers updating to the powerful, streamlined flow and flexibility of Mastercam X2, but provide a broad based overview of what Mastercam can do for a new customer.
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The 20 min video covers seven distinct areas, said a report to manufacturingtalk.com from CNC Software.
The first segment covers the new Mastercam X interface and helps demonstrate both how to use it and why you may want to use it in specific ways.
The second and third sections of this video provide actual workflow demonstrations of 2D and 3D design using Mastercam's highly graphical and flexible Sketcher tools.
The remaining sections cover Multiaxis machining and high speed toolpaths.
* High feed rates - the High Feed Optimization video focuses on the benefits of Mastercam's High Feed Optimization, including how this function can maximize your tooling and machine tool's capabilities.
The Multimedia page also provides videos of the Machine and Control Definition Toolkit in Mastercam, as well as customer testimonials, which spotlight current Mastercam customers and how they have used Mastercam to increase their productivity or conquer complex jobs.
The Multimedia page will be continuously updated with new, exciting material.
* About Mastercam - developed by CNC Software, Incorporated, Mastercam is Windows-based CAD/CAM software for the following.
* 2- through 5-axis milling and turning.
* 2- and 4-axis wire EDM.
* 2D and 3D design, surface, and solid modeling.
* Artistic relief cutting.
* 2D and 3D routing.
CNC Software is a privately owned corporation founded in 1984.
The US based company provides Mastercam CAD/CAM software systems to more than 124,936 installations in 75 countries in industries including mould-making, prototyping, automotive, medical, aerospace, and consumer products.
Mastercam runs under Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, and is compatible with all other CAD/CAM systems.
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