Mastercam Lathe

Trust the Leader

Mastercam is the most widely used CAM software worldwide* and remains the program of choice among CNC programmers. Mastercam Lathe X4 is the next generation of our popular program, delivering the most comprehensive turning package with powerful new toolpaths and techniques.

The Core of Your Turning Needs

Mastercam gives your shop the best possible foundation for fast and efficient turning. From roughing and finishing to easy grooving and threading, Mastercam ensures that you’re ready for any job.

And you can combine Mastercam Lathe with Mastercam Mill to get a full range of C-axis Mill/Turn toolpaths.

* Source: CIMdata, inc.

A Focus on Speed and Efficiency

Mastercam X4 is here with a new suite of CAD/CAM tools focused on delivering speed and efficiency for your machining jobs.

Multiple Groove Chain

The new Multiple chains option makes programming complex groves containing multiple pieces of geometry much easier by programming all selected grooves at once.

Other Groove Toolpath Enhancements

A corner dwell has been added to the Groove finish parameters page. The dwell will be engaged at the intersection of wall/corner geometry to a flat bottom groove.
You can now set a feed rate specifically for the first plunge move.
New feed and speed options for finish passes output a separate feed rate and spindle speed for the finish groove passes.

Tool Inspection Position

Mastercam X4 now provides a way for you to inspect your tool based on conditions you set. The options available are between grooves, after first plunge, after each depth cut, and after a specified number of plunges.

Turn Profile

Mastercam X4 includes a new function for generating a turned profile from a solid, immediately delivering a precise profile of even the most complex and non-uniform parts.

Powerful Part Modeling

Mastercam’s streamlined CAD engine makes design work easier than ever before. Each piece of geometry you create is “live," letting you quickly modify it until it’s exactly what you want. Further, with traditional functions consolidated into a few simple clicks, Mastercam simplifies the creation of even the most complex parts.

Easy 2D and 3D geometry creation with complete wireframe and surface modeling.
Quick turned profile generation for uniform and non-uniform parts.
Fast creation of a wide range of NURBS and parametric surfaces, including powerful net and fence surfaces.
New smart surface extension handles difficult surface intersections, delivering smooth, clean results.
Flexible surface filleting offers constant radius fillets and point-and-click variable radius fillets.
Remove trim boundaries and fill trimmed holes.
Automatic parting line calculation for mold making.
Associative dimensions update as you change your model.
Extensive CAD editing tools, including unlimited Undo/Redo.
User-definable drafting grid simplifies detailed construction.
Customizable AutoCursor™ snaps to commonly used construction points.
Solid modeling is available as an optional add-in.

More Ways to Streamline Construction

New Dynamic Plane creation streamlines and simplifies all plane creation with easy click-and-drag tools.
Analyze single points, between points, angles, and entire entities.
Simplified and improved work coordinate system makes it easy to work on a model without having to move it in 3D space. Your new planes and origins are easily transferred to your G-code.
Save a description with your part for record keeping.
View thumbnail images of parts for easier browsing and loading.
Improved file management includes a variety of new options for saving and retrieving files, portions of files, specific entities, and more.

Solids

solids Mastercam can machine solids quickly and easily. But it doesn’t end there. The Mastercam Solids add-in gives you powerful solid modeling right within your programming software.

Solid modeling is transforming the way parts are designed. Now you can bring that power right into your shop.

Faster modeling of parts, molds, and fixtures using integrated solids, surfaces, and wireframe.
Greater flexibility in accepting outside models.
Solids machining with access to Mastercam's powerful CAM functions.
The addition of Solids turns Mastercam into a true hybrid modeler.
Based on the industry-leading Parasolid® kernel, Mastercam Solids delivers powerful solid modeling with an eye for production.

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

Easy Threading and Grooving

Common threading and grooving techniques combine with Mastercam’s easy operation and additional strategies to give you fast and precise results.

Click and drag a machining start point anywhere on your model.
Grooving with multiple depth cuts and pecking.
Groove from a point or multiple points without creating geometry.
Easily define groove depth, width, wall angles, corner radius, and chamfer.
Skip over a groove or cavity when roughing or finishing without creating additional geometry.
Step and stepless grooving.
Many additional grooving options including zigzag rough grooving, angular grooving, and face grooving.
Complete threading with multiple starts, diameter calculation, and thread tables.
Chuck, part, steady rest, and tailstock detection.
New Multiple chains option makes programming complex groves containing multiple pieces of geometry much easier by programming all selected grooves at once.
A corner dwell can be engaged at the intersection of wall/corner geometry to a flat bottom groove.
Set a feed rate specifically for the first plunge move.
New feed and speed options for finish passes output a separate feed rate and spindle speed for the finish groove passes.
Mastercam’s new Tool Inspection Position provides a way for you to inspect your tool based on conditions you set. The options available are between grooves, after first plunge, after each depth cut, and after a specified number of plunges.
Open and directly machine a solid model.
Mastercam's Quick Toolpaths let you program parts completely with just a few simple clicks.

Fast thread machining	Step grooving	Stepless grooving
Zigzag rough grooving	Multiple grooving styles, including angular	Face grooving

C-axis (Mill/Turn) Programming

Full C-axis machining when combined with Mastercam Mill.

Mastercam Lathe delivers a standard set of C-axis programming tools, with greatly expanded options when combined with Mastercam Mill.

Face contour
Cross contour
Face drilling
Cross drilling
Both Face and Cross drilling include the ability to sort points in a clockwise or counterclockwise sweep (rotary) direction.
Automatically sets tool plane and construction plane for face/cross contour and face/cross drilling.
Machine C-axis contours with 3D or flat geometry.

Dependable Toolpath Verification

Mastercam gives you the confidence to run even the most complex toolpaths on your machines. You can easily check that the motion delivers exactly what you expect with Mastercam’s toolpath verification tools.

Watch and measure your part as it is cut from a solid block of material with Mastercam's solid model toolpath verification. The tool and holder are checked and displayed during simulation.
“Play” the program with toolpath backplotting and get an estimate of machining time. Dynamically view all the vital information about tools and operations at any point, and even isolate specific areas to watch more closely.

Define Your Shop

Mastercam’s Machine and Control Definition delivers a new way to make sure that your parts are done right the first time.

Define features and characteristics for all the machines in your shop.
Mastercam allows you to program only within the chosen machine’s capabilities.
Drag preprogrammed toolpaths from one machine to another. Mastercam checks that they will run on the new machine, automatically making adjustments where necessary.
Mastercam tailors the interface to your selected machine’s capabilities, and will even automatically load the toolbars that make you the most efficient.

Efficient NC Tools and Toolpath Management

The actual cutter path is only a portion of what makes a good NC program. The overall toolpath management and controls make each operation as optimized and efficient as possible.

Full control over all aspects of tool approach and retract.
Safe zones help ensure safe tool retract in all toolpath types.
Significantly reduce the size of a program with toolpath filtering.
Use all your tooling and inserts.
Automatically generate customizable setup sheets.
Subroutine support.
User-customizable tool and material libraries automatically calculate feeds and speeds.
Mastercam's Toolpath Manager stores all your job's operations in one place. Quickly create, edit, and verify your toolpaths, or copy and paste parameters from one operation to another. Use machine groups to organize your operations, and easily copy and paste toolpaths and tool definitions from one machine group to another.

Capture Your Machining Knowledge

Mastercam creates a smart link between a part and its toolpaths. This associativity means that if there are any changes to the part, you can easily update the toolpath.

Toolpath Associativity

Mastercam’s 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 the job and immediately get updated toolpaths without starting over. Mastercam’s intelligent NC programming lets you build a library of machining strategies done the way you want them. Just choose the saved operations, apply them to a part, and Mastercam adapts them to the new model. Fast, easy, and productive – the way programming should be.

CAD File Change Recognition & Toolpath Updating

Mastercam's Change Recognition quickly identifies changes to a CAD file, allowing you to easily adjust the toolpath for the updated model.

Mastercam delivers two powerful tools that give you an easy way to identify these issues and streamline programming an updated file - File Tracking and Change Recognition.

Create a checklist of files to watch including Mastercam, SolidWorks, Autocad, or other CAD files. Mastercam alerts you when a newer version of any file on the list is available.
Mastercam’s Change Recognition identifies modifications to any type of CAD geometry with no file type imitations – any combination of wireframe, solids, or surfaces.
Mastercam marks any toolpaths affected by the updated CAD file. You can quickly select the new geometry and update the toolpaths.
Once you update an affected toolpath, automatically update any additional toolpaths that use that geometry.

The real power of these tools becomes clear when receiving engineering changes to a large file with multiple operations. Something as simple as a few additional drill holes could be frustrating to identify. Now, with a few mouse clicks, you can immediately locate and program these changes, saving valuable time.

Compare Product Options

	Lathe	When combined with Mill Level 1	When combined with Mill Level 3
CAD
Complete customizability
Quickly create and dimension live wireframe geometry
Read/write IGES, DXF, SAT, Parasolid & more
Read native AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Solid Edge & more
Read native Catia and Pro/E files	optional	optional	optional
Live surface modeling
CAD file change recognition
Solid modeling	optional	optional	optional
CAM
Streamlined Quick Toolpath programming
Intelligent ID and OD roughing
Easy finishing
Optimized facing
Grooving
Threading
Canned cycle support
Automatic gouge checking
Boring, drilling, and point-to-point machining
Machine directly on a solid
Chuck, part, steady rest, and tailstock collision check
Fully associative toolpaths
Machine and control definition
Face and cross contour
Face and cross drilling
3D C-axis contour machining
All pocketing routines
All contour routines
All drilling routines
Full multisurface and solid roughing
Full multisurface and solid finishing
Full multisurface and solid "clean-up" machining
High speed toolpaths
Multiaxis machining			optional
Engraving		optional	optional