CAM Gets the Most Out of a Five-Axis Router

Our company provides fast turnaround on difficult projects that involve design, engineering, prototyping, and fabrication. A SolidWorks model of a prototype sea-kayak imports into Mastercam X2 and quickly opens. The wire-frame view allows fast model manipulation. Mastercam lets users break up surfaces of a model into areas and then assign cutting techniques to each. The selected buttons at the top of the Backplot dialog box (left side) are telling the software to display the tool, toolholder, and rapid moves on a surface that was broken down into smaller sections. The software lets users select elements such as lines, curves, and splines by color and assign the color to a specific type of tool path. This is helpful when programming nested parts or complex geometry. Here, for example, green is assigned to