WHAT’S NEW
Productivity Performance Progress
2025 TOP TEN FEATURES
Explore the new Mastercam features you have been waiting for! This brochure covers a few top features
across the suite of Solutions that will enhance your productivity and profitability.
Visit whatsnew.mastercam.com to see everything Mastercam’s latest game-changing installment has to offer.
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Mastercam Deburr
Productivity | Add-On, 2D and 3D Mill, Router, Mill-Turn
Mastercam Deburr simplifies the deburring process through automatic edge detection
and intuitive controls. It was created so that users can take advantage of the streamlined
Deburr cycle in a 3-axis environment without a Multiaxis license. If you have a Multiaxis
license, the simplified controls for 3-axis deburring will be familiar.
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Finishing Passes for Dynamic
Mill and Area Mill Toolpaths
Productivity | Mill 2D
Mastercam 2025 introduces the ability to add Finish
Passes to 2D Dynamic Mill and Area Mill toolpaths.
Use the new Finish Passes page to add high-speed
finishing passes along the selected boundaries of
the toolpath. After selecting the Finish Pass option,
use the other parameters on this page to further
define the finish pass, such as feed rate and spindle
speed overrides. Use the stock-to-leave options on
the Cut parameters page to ensure there is material
for the finish passes.
In addition to the Finish Passes page, the new Lead
In/Out page allows you to set specific lead in/out
options for finish passes only.
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Thread Mill Enhancements
Performance | Mill, Router
Various Thread Mill Enhancements have been added
in Mastercam 2025. A few of the top highlights are:
Speed/Feed Override Gradual Lead Tool Edge
for Lead In/Out In/Out Feed Rate
This feature provides better This new lead in/out strategy Use the new Tool Edge Feed
control during entry moves, provides the user with Rate check box to calculate
which promotes better more control over the tool the feed rate based on the
tool life and more accurate during engagement and tool’s tangential edge rather
machining of threads. disengagement for a Thread than on the centerline. When
Mill operation. This strategy you activate Multi Passes
allows the user to engage the with Tool Edge Feed Rate,
radial depth of a Thread Mill Mastercam adjusts the
operation through a helical feed rate for the different
motion, which gradually diameters needed for
engages the tool throughout multiple passes.
a 180° arc sweep.
This option also considers
Throughout the arc sweep multiple diameters where
motion, the tool will engage you select holes with a
1/2 pitch deep before range of diameters as input
achieving full radial and axial geometries and allows users
thread depths. to produce a more accurate
feed rate based on the cutter
diameter and the diameter of
the hole being machined.
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Solid Hole Selection
Productivity | Mill
Mastercam 2025 includes changes to the default
selection behavior of the Solid Hole Selection
and is therefore not optional. This will be useful
for customers who use Hole Making and Process
Hole toolpaths. The changes associated with
this update create a more efficient, precise,
and controllable hole selection. The Solid Hole
Selection update encompasses many new
behaviors for selecting holes.
Toolpath Hole Definition Changes
• Simplified selection rules.
• Multiple hole types are allowed in
a single toolpath.
• Segment selections from the same hole are
always joined together into a single feature.
• Selection from the solids history tree now
adds all segments.
• Selection behaviors are now the same
for both native Mastercam hole features and
those related to imported neutral CAD formats.
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Safety Zone Improvements for Hole Making
Progress | Mill
In Mastercam 2025 the new Safety Zone now uses
meshes for parametric shapes. Before the Safety Zone
used a mesh for the Wrap Shape type only. This first
phase of the updated Safety Zone is available for all Hole
Making toolpaths including Process Hole. Along with
an updated algorithm which results in the Safety Zone
now being a post toolpath calculation, the following new
parameters are now available:
• Linear Tolerance
• Blending Distance
• Smoothing Distance
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Y-Axis Turning Support in Mill-Turn
Progress | Mill-Turn
Mastercam 2025 introduces Mill-Turn support for Y-axis Turning. All turning
toolpaths except custom thread and B- axis contour turning support Y-axis
functionality.
Automatically create a set of planes that you can use to create your toolpath
with the proper tool orientation and spindle origin. It also locks the B-axis to the
90-degree position.
In addition, the available approach and retract strategies have been enhanced to
include Y-first strategies, along with the ability to designate tool assemblies as Y-axis
compatible in the holder component page.
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A-Axis Contour Turning in Mill-Turn
Progress | Mill-Turn
Mastercam 2025 introduces the
new A-axis Contour Turning
Toolpath. It complements the
B-axis contour toolpath introduced
in Mastercam 2023 and extends
Mastercam’s support for rotary
contour turning. The new toolpath
is very similar to the B-axis contour
toolpath, except that it uses Y-axis
tools. The ability to rotate the tool
while in the cut lets Mastercam
users reach difficult-to-machine
areas while taking advantage of
the latest advances in Y-axis tool
technology.
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B-Axis Contour Turning Enhancements
Performance | Mill-Turn
Two new features have been added to the B-axis rotary contour toolpath
in Mill-Turn. To start, you can now include splines in your chained geometry.
In addition, new tool angle controls let you specify either a leading or
trailing angle for the insert.
Tool Angle Control in Spline Support for
B-Axis Contour Turning B-Axis Contour Turning
Precise control of the tool Converting splines into
axis during B-axis Contour arcs and lines was an extra,
is essential. It will enhance tedious process. Driving
the toolpath creation a B-axis Contour toolpath
process and will greatly on a spline will simplify
improve the resulting and speed up the toolpath
machined finishes. generation process.
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Analyze Deviation Function
Productivity | Design
Mastercam 2025 now includes Analyze Deviation. This function
analyzes the differences between entities and applies a color coded
“heat map” to the geometry, which display deviations within the
graphics window. Deviation analysis allows you to compare any
combination of points, curves, surfaces, bodies, or faces.
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Machine Configuration Save/Load in Mill-Turn
Progress | Machine Systems, Mill-Turn
Mastercam 2025 introduces the ability for Mill-Turn platform users to store
and reuse common machine setups, including work holding, tool holding, and
tooling components. Mill-Turn users can save specific machine configurations to
individual configuration files, then load them again to quickly use the same setup
on additional parts.
Machine configurations can include any combination of work holding
components, steady rests, and tool holding components. The tool holding
components can include individual tools mounted in them.
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THERE’S STILL MORE TO EXPLORE
Mastercam 2025 brings new features and enhancements focused on delivering speed and
efficiency to your machining jobs. Here are some of the additional highlights we are offering
for Milling, Turning, Machine Systems, and more.
Viewing Graphical Planes and Geometry Color with 2D and 3D Toolpaths
The graphical planes and geometry colors that were previously added to the hole-making and
Multiaxis toolpaths are now included in the 2D and 3D Milling toolpaths.
Workholding for 3D and Model Chamfer Toolpaths
You can now use the workholding components defined in Machine Group Setup in your
3D high-speed and 2D Model Chamfer toolpaths.
New Job Setup Warning
Mill-Turn users who make changes to their Job Setup settings that result in changes to the lathe
stock boundary— for example, changing the stick-out distance—will see a new warning message.
Adding Support Files to Machine Environments
Mill-Turn machine environments now include a Miscellaneous Files node.
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