Experience the Power of Mastercam X Design.
Mastercam is the most commonly used CAD/CAM software worldwide* and remains the program of choice among CNC programmers. Mastercam X is the next generation of our popular program, delivering a new simplified, customizable interface with more power, and CAD tools designed for the NC programmer. Included with most Mastercam CAM packages, Mastercam X Design is also available as a stand-alone package.
* Source: CIMdata, Inc.
Efficient Wireframe Geometry 
- Multiple point and line creation techniques.
- Efficient arc, circle, and fillet functions, including filleting at every corner in a chain of entities.
- Create splines on surfaces using a variety of functions including surface projections, surface intersections, edge curves, slicing curves, and parting lines.
- Create pre-filleted shapes to save time.
Flexible Geometry Editing
- Change widths, styles, and colors globally or for a single entity.
- Quickly modify parameters such as line length and arc radius after creation.
- Fillet or chamfer corners easily.
- Extend lines, arcs, splines, and surfaces.
- Trim single or multiple surfaces with full undo capability.
- Quickly translate, mirror, and scale (uniformly or with separate factors in X, Y, and Z).
- Offset entities by a given distance.
Powerful Surface Modeling
- Create parametric and NURBS surfaces using loft, ruled, revolved, swept, draft, and offset creation methods.
- New “fence” and “net” surfaces expand your modeling power.
- Trim single and multiple surfaces to curves, planes and surfaces.
- Easily extend and split surfaces.
- Flexible surface filleting offers constant radius fillets and point-and-click variable radius fillets.
- Automatic parting line calculation for mold making.
- Create, edit, and manipulate realistically shaded surface models.
Easy Drafting Tools
- One-pick dimensioning.
- Modify dimensional geometry and its dimensions automatically update.
- Easily drag and place drafting notes as they are being created and change their attributes on the fly.
File Management and Data Exchange 
- Built-in data translators for IGES, Parasolid®, SAT (ACIS solids), AutoCAD® (DXF, DWG, and Inventor TM files), SolidWorks®, Solid Edge®, STEP, EPS, CADL, STL, VDA, and ASCII. Direct translators for CATIA®, Pro/E®, and more are also available.
- Special no-charge Mastercam Direct add-ons put Mastercam in your SolidWorks, Solid Edge, or AutoCAD Inventor toolbars.
- Save a description of your files for easier browsing and loading.
- View files before opening them.
Selection Options
- AutoCursorTM snaps to commonly used points to simplify construction.
- Smart chaining selects an entire chain of entities at once and automates other selection tasks.
Geometry Analysis
- Instantly analyze any entity for size, location, entity type, and other attributes.
- Check the integrity of surface models and trimmed surface boundaries.
| Complete customizability |  |
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| Create/edit/transform entities: points, lines, arcs, fillets, chamfers, splines, drafting, polygon, ellipse | |
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| - Curves | - | |
| - Surfaces | - | |
| - Primitives | - | |
| - Solid to 2D profile | - | |
| Live surface modeling | - | |
| Solid modeling | - | optional |
| Create and dimension live 2D & 3D wireframe geometry | |
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| Read & write Mastercam files | |
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| Read native Autocad, SolidWorks, Solid Edge files (Will bring files in as surfaces unless the Solids option is present.) | wireframe only | |
| Read IGES, DXF/DWG, VDA, ASCII, PLT-HPGL, CDL, EPS, STL files | |
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| Read STEP, SAT/ACIS, Parasolids, Inventor files | wireframe only | |
| Read native Catia and Pro/E files | - | optional |
| Write STEP, SAT/ACIS, Parasolids files | - | |
| Write IGES, DWG/DXF/Inventor, VDA, ASCII, CDL, STL files | |
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| Analyze entity properties | |
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- Surface area |
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| - Solid properties | - | |
| Support for optional products |  |
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- Raster to Vector Conversion |
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| - Art Design | - | |
- Nesting |
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| Support for third party add-ins | - | |
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