Mastercam Software – Axsys Incorporated

Mastercam creates software and services that solve the world’s manufacturing challenges.

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The Worlds Most Popular CAM Software

Axsys provides industry-leading Mastercam CAD/CAM Software Solutions that enable manufacturers to design and manufacture parts and tooling from virtually all industry segments.  

Mastercam offers CAD/CAM software tools for a variety of programming needs, from basic to complex. Due to our innovative, flexible solutions and top notch network of support, our software is the most widely used in industry and education. Choose Mastercam to streamline your production process from job setup to job completion.

Powerfult CAD/CAM Software

Mastercam products take parts from design through the production line. Program your parts with leading-edge features for precision and efficiency. Creating code to drive your CNC equipment is what Mastercam does best.

Mastercam is easy and intuitive to use, but maintains a depth of features to support the most complicated jobs.

Mastercam toolpaths are elegant and remarkably efficient.

Dynamic Motion

Extend tool life with proprietary toolpath strategies that maximize material removal rate and reduce cycle times.

Powerful CAD

Create, import, and manipulate wireframe, surfaces, STL, and solids data from virtually any source.

Accelerated Finish™

Take advantage of innovative profile tools and processes aimed at higher machining productivity.

Advanced Solutions for Manufacturing

More people use Mastercam than any other CAM software. From CAD inception to the creation of a final machined part, Mastercam is designed as a comprehensive solution for manufacturing efficiency.

Mill Solutions

Give your shop the best possible foundation for fast and efficient milling. From general purpose methods such as optimized pocketing to highly specialized toolpaths like 5-axis turbine cutting, with Mastercam Mill, your parts are produced faster, with greater accuracy, quality, and repeatability.  

Many of the products we use every day are made with the help of Mastercam Mill. This software delivers a full array of machining strategies and so much more. Mastercam milling solutions can be customized to what your shop needs today and easily scaled to meet your future manufacturing needs.

Add On's

5-Axis Curve Machining & Drilling

5-Axis Curve Machining and Drilling helps you make better use of the capabilities that 5-axis machines provide. Your multiaxis machine is capable of drilling holes from different angles with a single fixture setup, saving time and increasing productivity.

Port Expert

Mastercam Port Expert facilitates toolpath generation for CNC cylinder head porting. It is a fast and easy-to-use software for creating multiaxis toolpaths within cylinder head ports, complex tubes, or deep pockets.

Productivity+

Productivity+ gives you the ability to use a Renishaw measuring probe on a machine tool to update fixture offsets, tooling offsets, program orientation, and report on critical dimensions and tolerances. It also assists in lights-out manufacturing and running a machine tool without an operator

Blade Expert

Generating toolpaths for impellers, fans, and marine propellers is a complex 5-axis challenge. Machining these multibladed shapes usually requires special multistep, multiaxis programming, but Mastercam Blade Expert provides a comprehensive solution for various blade configurations.

ProDrill

Dramatically speed up the holemaking process for parts containing many holes and multidiameter holes. Mastercam ProDrill is a highly customizable, feature-based drilling Add-On for Mastercam. From automatic to fully-customizable drilling routines on surface or solid models from virtually any CAD source, you can adapt time-consuming, repetitive drilling tasks to your style of machining.

Productivity+

Blade Expert

Tool Inspection

Automatically stop machining to check the insert during your roughing, finishing, and grooving operations.

3D Tooling Support

Available in Mastercam Lathe, Mill, and Mill-Turn.

Accelerated Finish™

Take advantage of innovative profile tools and processes aimed at higher machining productivity.

Lathe Solutions

Our lathe solutions give you a set of tools to turn your parts exactly as you need them. Mastercam Lathe provides easy roughing, grooving, threading, parting, boring, drilling, and finishing routines for increased productivity.  

Mastercam Lathe also delivers a set of C-axis programming tools, with greatly expanded options when combined with Mastercam Mill, such as face contour and drilling and cross contour and drilling.

Features

Efficiency

Quickly translate geometry and create a part transfer operation from the main spindle to sub spindle and/or a bar pull operation prior to a cutoff toolpath.

Intelligent ID & OD Roughing

Machine any job with the combined power of C- and Y-axis machining.

Live Tooling

Code Expert

Optimize machine movement and synchronization between turrets and spindles with this state-of-the art interface to generate accurate and efficient code.

Flexibility

Mastercam Mill-Turn allows you to have a complete post, supporting special tools like pinch and balanced turning for twin spindle, twin turret, and B-axis head machines.

Partner Benefits™

Mastercam Mill-Turn users get the benefits of industry-leading technology like Sandvik Coromant® PrimeTurning™ automated toolpath strategies and CoroTurn® tools.

Mill-Turn Solutions

Mastercam Mill-Turn streamlines programming of high-power multistream machine centers for increased performance and safety. These multitasking CNC machines reduce multiple setups, manual part handling, redundant fixturing, and idle time for improved productivity in manufacturing.  

This software provides a set of routines to program complex parts and test your cutting strategies in a single environment—before your stock is on your multitasking machine. You can use Mill-Turn to machine parts without fear of costly collisions or machine damage.

Optimization, synchronization, and visualization in a single platform.
Automation to easily manage complex operations between multiple machine data streams.
Efficient milling, turning, and drilling operations with fewer setups at high speed.
Program simple lathes in addition to complex machines.

More people use Mastercam than any other CAM software. From CAD inception to the creation of a final machined part, Mastercam is designed as a comprehensive solution for manufacturing efficiency.

Features

CAD for CAM

A full design package based on a machinists needs including wireframe, surfaces, and solids design; open most CAD file in Mastercam to access modeling and prep tools for CAM programmers to get parts on and off machines quickly.

Advanced Technology

Mastercam’s proven toolpaths, intuitive part handling, automated job setup, 3D tooling support, customized milling tools optimized for mill-turn machining, deburring, support for 2- through 5-axis toolpaths, multiturret, multispindle, and more—all managed in a single machine environment.

Machine Simulation

Detect collisions between your stock, tool, and machine components before sending code to your machine tool. Machine Simulation is a safe way to prove out 3-axis, 4-axis, or 5-axis toolpaths to make clean, efficient, and accurate programs.

Control

With fast, easy, and complete control over tab creation you can quickly add multiple tabs to any piece of geometry.

Support

Axsys bring years of practical experience to ensure that as a Mastercam user, you always have the support you need to get the most out of your CAD/CAM investment.

Efficiency

Geometry and toolpath nesting provide an extremely fast way to program several parts while utilizing stock efficiently to reduce scrap.

Wire EDM Solutions

Fast, easy, and productive—the way programming should be. Mastercam Wire is a solution for programming CNC Wire EDM machines.  

Mastercam’s suite of 2-axis and 4-axis wirepaths lets you choose the best method for the results you need, with control over the wire motion, angle, entries and exits, and much more. And you get that control in a clear, easy to understand way.

Full-featured design capabilities support any combination of modeling, from wireframe to surfaces to solid models.
Automatic lead-in and lead-out strategies, fast, flexible tab creation, and no core cutting make Mastercam Wire a powerful tool for quickly programming parts.
Intelligent NC programming lets you build a library of machining strategies that automatically adapt to new models.
Mastercam Wire compliments the functionality of other products such as Mastercam Mill and Lathe.

The Mastercam platform is the most widely used and well known in the world of CAM. Shops using other Mastercam products that want to program wire EDM machines choose Mastercam Wire for a rapid return on investment.

Features

Flexibility

You can import geometry from virtually any source and create new geometry, giving you a high degree of flexibility to use your data for reliable programming.

Full Associativity

Gives you the power to capture your work and build on your experience; once you program a part—any part—you can modify any element of a job and get updated wirepaths immediately, without starting over.

Verification

Easily ensure the toolpath motion delivers exactly what you intended with Mastercam’s wirepath verification tools.

Control

Easily regulate tabs, webs, and cutting specifics for efficient flat panel cutting.

ATP

Links you to a variety of top design software to read in entire projects and have them program automatically using presets that you choose.

Feature Based
Machining

Evaluates a part’s features and automatically designs an effective machining strategy.

Router Solutions

When you invest in a CNC router, you want the right software driving it to maximize productivity and avoid downtime due to costly errors. Mastercam Router delivers the right tool exactly when you need it.  

Anyone with a CNC router, from the home hobbyist to professional manufacturers, can appreciate the ease, speed, and reliability of Mastercam Router. The software delivers industry-proven NC programming for safe and efficient router machining of everything from wood to composite materials.

Many CAM packages for CNC routers are limited in scope, but with Mastercam, you have the flexibility to do more. From simple 2D programming to complex 5-axis machining, the world’s leading CAM Software helps get the best performance out of CNC routers.

Specialized options like Art and 5-Axis Curve Machining and Drilling.
Power libraries for almost any wire machine.
Toolpath creation, verification, and simulation for any CNC router.
Feature-rich product allows shops to diversify as needed to remain competitive.

Features

Machine Simulation

You can import geometry from virtually any source and create new geometry, giving you a high degree of flexibility to use your data for reliable programming.

Nesting Options

Engraving

You can create signs, artistic carvings, molds, and more.

Wireframe

Includes everything you need for the creation and editing of lines, arcs, splines, and points. Beyond 2D sketch creation, 3D capabilities offer unlimited flexibility to create the geometry you need with ease.

Surfaces

Mastercam gives you a powerful set of surface design tools for straightforward control over every detail of your work.

History-Based
Machining

Allows you to construct models from the simplest wireframe sketches and to continue to edit the model to meet your desired result.

Design Solutions

Mastercam Design is a computer-aided design solution that simplifies the creation of even the most complex parts with a robust suite of CAD tools. Design is included with Mastercam’s suite of CAM solutions. It is also available as a standalone product.  

From fixing flaws in an imported model, to creating fixtures for work holding on a machine-and so much more, this powerful CAD engine includes modeling and prep tools for CAM programmers to get parts on and off machines quickly

A notable advantage of our integrated CAD for CAM is the ability to import files from virtually any computer-aided design source. Mastercam includes a large selection of CAD model importers, so no matter where a model was created, you can import and modify as needed for your machining purposes.

Mastercam can read CAD files from ASCII, CADL, DWG, DXF, EPS, IGES, Inventor (IPT, IDW, IAM), KeyCreator Files (CKD), Parasolids, Rhino 3DM, SOLIDWORKS (SLDPRT, SLDASM, SLDDRW), SAT (ACIS solids), Solid Edge (PAR & PSM), SpaceClaim Files (SCDOC), STEP, STL, and VDA.
Specialty data translators are available to read CAD files from UG/NX, CoroPlus®, Creo, and CATIA™.Full 3D CAD modeling.

Features

Robust CAD

A comprehensive suite of tools for the creation/import and editing of models to modify and prepare for machining.

Direct-Editing Solids

This suite of tools found on the Model Prep ribbon allows you to modify solids that have no history to edit. You can select faces of a solid body to change the length, you can modify the radius of fillets or remove them all together. You can select bosses or cavities and move them, copy them, or eliminate them entirely

Drafting

Dimensions, labels, and notes are part of our drafting functionality to communicate important design information to the shop floor.

Powerful CAD

Create, import, and manipulate wireframe, surfaces, STL, and solids data. Open CAD files from virtually any source.

Accelerated Finish™

Take advantage of innovative profile tools and processes aimed at greater efficiency and higher machining productivity.

Advanced Toolpaths

Reduce costs and cut programming time with advanced toolpaths like Deburr and Equal Scallop.

Educational Suite

Our CAD/CAM software solutions are bundled and priced at deep discounts for schools to incorporate the world’s leading CAM software into their curricula—with all the functionality of the industrial versions of these products included in the Mastercam Educational Suite.

Teachers appreciate the flexibility to teach everything from introductory lessons all the way to advanced CAM applications. Whether you want to briefly expose students to computer-aided design and manufacturing, enhance STEM education programs, or prepare students for careers in manufacturing with hands-on instruction, you can do it all with this software.

Mastercam skills prepare students for rewarding careers as makers and innovators Shaping the Future of Manufacturing™.

Mastercam Educational Suite includes:

Mastercam is the most widely used CAM software in the world.* This makes our educational solutions a valuable addition to the curriculum of any technical education program. If you want to prepare your students for successful careers in manufacturing, get them started with Mastercam in the classroom.

Features

Dynamic Motion™

Extend tool life with proprietary toolpath strategies that maximize material removal rate and reduce cycle times.

Free Software

Give the world’s #1 CAM software a test drive. Download Mastercam Demo/Home Learning Edition at no cost. Students and educators can use Demo/HLE to learn Mastercam and get familiar with the latest advances in CAD/CAM – every step of the way up to actually machining a part!

Career Opportunities

Prepare your students for real-world opportunities in manufacturing with the most widely used CAM software—in both education and industry—as part of your school’s curriculum.