A Closer Look at Mastercam Mill-Turn
Mastercam Mill-Turn makes machining on today’s turning center and machining centers easier on programmers. Today we’ll take a closer look at Mill-Turn and show you how to perform:
1. Extended Set-up
2. Intuitive Tool Plane Selection
3. Sync Manager
4. Mulit-Stream Code Expert
Extended Set-up
Upon opening a new file for Mill-Turn, the system will guide you to an expanded Set-up dialog box which will help you define the type of workflow to use, define stock and chunk for each spindle as well automate Turn Profile creation and part transfers. The Tree Style interface makes it easier to review your selections and make changes.
Intuitive Tool Plane Selection
For complex parts, selecting features to create a working Tool Plane is easier with the Mill-Turn options. Users can simply select a face from the geometry and based on the machine environment, the right Tool Plane orientation will be created.
Sync Manager
Once tool paths are created, the Sync Manager creates wait points throughout your program to best optimize your cycle time and keeps operations from overlapping each other.
Multi-Stream Code Expert
Continuing with proper verification of G-Code output, the Multi-Stream option with Code Expert allows the user to visually see where the sync and wait codes are for each program.
