Mastercam Wire
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Mastercam is the most widely used CAM software worldwide* and remains the program of choice among CNC programmers. Mastercam Wire X4 is the next generation of our popular program, delivering the most comprehensive wire EDM package with powerful wirelpaths and techniques.

The Core of Your Wire EDM Needs

Mastercam gives your shop the best possible foundation for fast and efficient wire cutting. From basic 2-axis contouring to complex 4-axis motion, Mastercam ensures that you’re ready for any job.

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.

Agievision Control Support

Mastercam X4 Wire has all new support for Agie EDM with Agievision controls. This new Agievision support includes a new interface and a complete set of machine definition / control definition / post processor files. Simply choose an Agievision AWF Wire Machine Definition, and you’ll see the parameter pages that anyone familiar with Agievision will instantly recognize.

Translators

Whether you are bringing in a file from a specific CAD package or a neutral format, dependable, accurate data translators are essential to your shop.

• Built-in data translators for IGES, Parasolid®, SAT (ACIS solids), AutoCAD® (DXF, DWG, and InventorTM files), SolidWorks®, Solid Edge®, KeyCreator®, Rhino®, STEP, EPS, CADL, STL, VDA, and ASCII.
• Direct translators for CATIA®, Pro/E, and more are also available.
• When opening a SolidWorks file in Mastercam, you can bring in the entire solids history, ready to be edited with Mastercam Solids.
• Special no-charge Mastercam Direct add-ins put a button in your CAD system’s toolbar that lets you launch Mastercam and open your native file with a single click. Mastercam Direct is available for SolidWorks, Solid Edge, or AutoCAD Inventor files.

Powerful Part Modeling

• ` Easy, efficient CAD tools ensure quick design

• 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.
• 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.
  

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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

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 tools.

Powerful EDM Programming

Fast 2-axis contouring

Powerful 4-axis contouring with automatic reverse and skim cuts

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

• 2-axis contour, with or without taper angle.
• No-core cutting.
• 4-axis synchronization with automatic or manual input and automatic skim and reverse cuts.
• 4-axis surface finish by chordal deviation.
• 4-axis interpolation support (G2/G3).
• Graphical programming with options for straight cut, tapered cut, or tapered cut with land from either direction.
• Automatic lead-in and lead-out strategies.
• Contour multiple parts using a single window selection.
• Automatic maximum taper/UV travel detection.
• Special Sharp Corner option creates an outside loop to ensure corners are not rounded off.
• Automatic wirepath corner filleting.
• Translate wirepaths for easy part repetition without creating new geometry.
• Modify control settings, corner types, and taper angles at any point in a contour.
• Define separate lead-ins and lead-outs for wirepaths with trimming of leads to improve efficiency.
• Apply tapers before or after a vertical wirepath.
• Click and dynamically drag a machining start point to anywhere on your model.
• Wirepath filtering significantly reduces the size of a program. The filter automatically turns small, multiple linear moves into single line or arc moves.

Streamline your multiple-cut jobs

Mastercam simplifies 2- and 4-axis nested programming

Run operations unattended with efficient no-core cutting

Efficient Tab Creation

Tab control makes it easy to cut multiple parts with complete control over when the tab is cut.

The right tabs can be crucial on any job, whether simple or complex. Mastercam delivers fast, easy, and complete control over your tab creation.

• Quickly add multiple tabs to any piece of geometry.
• Automatic tabs with user-definable stop types.
• No Drop Out tab option helps avoid slivers.
• Tab cutoff passes can be run after each part, or after all parts are done.
• Easily create tabs on open contours.

Dependable Toolpath Verification

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

• Watch and measure your part as it is cut from a solid block of material with Mastercam's solid model wirepath verification. The wire and guides are checked and displayed during simulation.
• Play the program with wirepath backplotting and get an estimate of machining time. Dynamically view all the vital information about the wire and operations at any point, and even isolate specific areas to watch more closely.
• Quickly verify 2D wirepaths with a pixel paint of the full wire diameter to check the finish.

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 wirepaths from one machine to another. Mastercam checks that they will run on the new machine, automatically making adjustments where possible.
• Mastercam tailors the interface to your selected machine’s capabilities, and will even automatically load the toolbars that make you most efficient.

Efficient NC Tools and Wirepath Management

Mastercam's Operation Manager is a fast, effecient way to manage your jobs.

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 wire approach and retract.
• Significantly reduce the size of a program with toolpath filtering.
• Automatically generate customizable setup sheets.
• Subroutine support.
• User-customizable wire 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 wirepaths, or copy and paste parameters from one operation to another. Use machine groups to organize your operations, and easily copy and paste wirepaths and 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.

Wirepath 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 wirepaths 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.

 

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CAD File Change Recognition & Wirepath 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 wirepaths affected by the updated CAD file. You can quickly select the new geometry and update the wirepaths.
• Once you update an affected wirepath, automatically update any additional wirepaths that use that geometry.

The real power of these tools becomes clear when receiving engineering changes to a large file with multiple operations. With a few mouse clicks, you can immediately locate and program these changes, saving valuable time.

Agievision Support Control

Mastercam X4 Wire has all new support for Agie EDM with Agievision controls. This new Agievision support includes a new interface and a complete set of machine definition / control definition / post processor files. Simply choose an Agievision AWF Wire Machine Definition, and you’ll see the parameter pages that anyone familiar with Agievision will instantly recognize.

System Requirements

• Processor: 1.5 GHz (minimum) 32-bit Intel-compatible processor; 64-bit Intel-compatible processors are supported.
• Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista (Business or Ultimate) including the latest service packs and recommended updates; .NET 2.0 framework.
• Memory: 1 GB (minimum), 1.7 GB available hard disk space.
• Graphics: 128 MB OpenGL-compatible graphics card (minimum).
• Monitor: 1024 x 768 at 96 DPI (minimum)
• Mouse: Windows-compatible 2-button or 3-button mouse (or with middle mouse wheel).