Mastercam Design
Mastercam Design is Mastercam's CAD foundation — wireframe, surface and solid modelling used to create or prepare geometry ahead of CAM programming in any Mastercam module.
What Mastercam Design does
Design provides the geometry-creation and editing tools used across Mastercam — wireframe curves, surfaces and solid modelling — plus the ability to import geometry from other CAD systems and prepare it for machining. Every other module (Mill, Lathe, Multiaxis, Mill-Turn, Wire, Router) relies on Design's CAD foundation, either bundled directly or included as a base license.
Key capabilities
Wireframe modelling
Curves, lines and construction geometry.
Surface modelling
Free-form surface creation and editing for complex shapes.
Solid modelling
Parametric-style solid construction and editing.
File import/translation
Bring in geometry from common CAD formats for machining.
CAD-to-CAM handoff
Prepared geometry feeds directly into toolpath chaining.
Typical users
CAM programmers
Cleaning up or preparing imported geometry before programming.
Tool & die designers
Building mold/die geometry directly in Mastercam.
Students & new users
Learning core CAD concepts before moving into CAM.