Lathe Productivity 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. 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 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.