Complete 80% of your Mastercam program in minutes
CAM Assist integrates with Mastercam to generate precise and efficient machining strategies. Takes just 1 hour to learn. Same day set-up.
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How CAM Assist for Mastercam works
Step 1
Open your CAD file in Mastercam. Define your machine and workholding.
Step 2
Choose your tool library, machine, stock material, and machining mode (3-axis or 3+2).
Step 3
AI creates machining strategies, feeds & speeds, and more — getting you 80% there. Adjust as needed.
Step 4
Post G-Code and run the part on your machine, having saved hours of manual work.
Make your machine shop 5x more productive
Generate machining strategies in minutes
CAM Assist creates 80% of your toolpaths and cutting strategies, so your programmers can focus on making more parts.
Feeds & speeds to reduce cycle time
Use our physics-based AI to optimize feeds & speeds. Get the perfect balance between cycle time, surface finish, and tool life.
Get accurate cycle times estimates, fast
CAM Assist enables quick and confident quoting. Deliver fast, accurate quotes to win more contracts.
Design custom soft jaws in seconds
Generate ready-to-machine soft jaw designs in seconds, saving an extra 40 minutes from CAD to first cut.
Through CAM Assist we get a lot more productivity. It's caveman to spaceman-- moving from hours to minutes. I'm all in!
Reduce your CAM programming time by 80%
AI CAM programming
AI cutting parameters
AI cycle time
3 axis & 3+2 axis
How to stop CAM programming causing bottlenecks:
Your options
Benefits to your shop
Potential trade-offs
It does 80% of the program in just a couple of clicks. It's just saving me all the grunt work, and I can go in and adjust whatever I want.
Security and compliance
CAM Assist undergoes regular internal reviews and independent audits to ensure the highest standards of compliance. We adhere to globally recognized security frameworks.
AWS GovCloud (US)
for Mastercam
SOC 2 Type 2
certified
Cyber Essentials Plus
certified
Cut time from CAD to first cut by 80%
Robotics
Cut time across the machining cycle
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Fixture design
CAM programming
Cutting parameter optimisation
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FAQs
CAM Assist pricing is bespoke to your shop’s needs. We offer flexible plans based on the number of users and the level of support required.
The fastest way to find the right fit is to book a no-obligation chat with a product expert.
They’ll walk you through the latest pricing options and share real examples of how shops like yours achieve a fast ROI.
CAM Assist is purchased on a per seat basis and attaches to your CAM seat license. Our fair usage policy requires that you purchase a seat for every active user.
Follow this link to get a demo of CAM Assist from one of our team if you haven't already signed up. Their experience in manufacturing will help us understand your challenges, and take the best-next steps from there.
Yes. We offer a 14-day money back guarantee.
CAM Assist is compatible with Mastercam 2025 and Mastercam 2024 (some limitations apply)
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We recommend following the computer system requirements suggested by your CAM software provider.
This ensures optimal performance since the results are generated directly on your computer within the CAM software.
Operating System
Windows 10 64-bit Professional, or Windows 11 64-bit Professional
CPU
Intel® or AMD 64-bit processor, 2.4 GHz or faster
Latest generation Intel i7/i9 processor, 3.2GHz or faster
Memory
Windows 10 → 8-12 GB, or Windows 11 → 32-64 GB
Video
OpenGL 3.2 and OpenCL 1.2 support, with 1GB memory
No onboard graphics
NVIDIA RTX or AMD FirePro™/Radeon Pro card with 4 GB (or higher) dedicated memory
Display resolution
1920 * 1080
Storage
Hard drive with at least 20 GB free
Solid State Drive (SSD) with at least 20 GB free
Additionally, a stable internet connection is required to use CAM Assist effectively.
CAM Assist doesn’t require any custom post-processors and works with almost every CNC milling machine (as long as you have the right post-processor in place).
CAM Assist does not currently support other types of CNC machine such as lathes and mill-turns, though this is in development.
Yes. CAM Assist is designed to work seamlessly with your tool library. It uses the tools and parameters from your library to generate accurate and efficient machining strategies.
Mastercam 2024 and 2025: We strongly recommend using Mastercam Tool Manager. This allows you to include material-specific presets and usage details for each tool, ensuring better compatibility with CAM Assist.
No. CAM Assist works directly within your existing CAM package and therefore does not require new post-processors.
Yes, CAM Assist requires a stable internet connection. The internet is necessary for processing and generating strategies and integrating them with your CAM software.
We understand our customers’ needs when it comes to securing their part data. We use state-of-the-art highly secure data centres to host our CAM Assist cloud infrastructure.
All customer data is encrypted both in transit and at rest using powerful encryption algorithms.
We are SOC2 Type 2 and Cyber Essentials Plus certified, with more accreditations on the way such as ISO27001, and NIST 800-171ITAR: option to use AWS GOVCloud (US).
For our full security questionnaire FAQs please ask your Account Executive when you book a demo.
No. The security and privacy of your parts data is very important to us. We don't train our AI based on any customer data. Instead, we work closely with customers to improve the outputs and overall performance of CAM Assist; in addition to using daily in our own development machine shop.
CAM Assist has a deep understanding of the rules and physics of machining, paired with the ability to generate trillions of possible ways to manufacture a component. It does this bearing in mind your unique combination of part + fixture + tooling + machine.
It rapidly simulates these possibilities, narrowing down the options to a sensible set of operations that will successfully produce the part to tolerance, which it then inputs this directly into to your CAM package, much in the same way you would. This leaves you with a CAM program that is ready to simulate and edit.
CAM Assist will rarely provide a perfect strategy first time, but it will usually get you 80% of the way there - it is up to you to decide how to use that time.
Whereas feature-based machining can identify a certain feature on a part and enable you to make a macro for that feature, CAM Assist is an AI that’s been programmed to know how to make the whole component.
That means instead of recognising features and drawing from a template library you have built, CAM Assist works out the best toolpaths and strategies based on all the elements that a component consists of, because CAM Assist understands the part holistically, as a whole.
CAM Assist is an AI that understands the physics and rules of CNC machining, works at full effectiveness out of the box, and receives new capabilities added monthly enabling it to program more components with faster cycle times and better process robustness.
By contrast Feature Based Machining is not AI and does not understand CNC machining. It can take upwards of a year to build an effective macro database, and most factories employing Feature Based Machining also employ full-time technicians to continually expand this database.
Feature Based Machining is known for being inflexible and difficult to set up. It tends to be most popular in major manufacturing operations producing large families of similar components - a use case in which it excels. It is rarely found in the subcontract machining arena.
CAM Assist requires no setup and little training, integrating directly into your existing CAM package. It also contains powerful additional capabilities including instant cycle time estimation, instant fixture generation and instant feed and speed optimisation.
CAM Assist Cutting Parameters AI is the engine powering the feeds and speeds underlying the automatic machining strategy generation in CAM Assist. This dynamic physics model computes feeds and speeds based on the characteristics of the chosen machine, tooling, materials and numerous other parameters. With the Cutting Parameters Explorer tool, users can also modify these parameters dynamically for each toolpath operation to account for the specific factors of the job at hand.
Yes, we do! Depending on the size and needs of your organization, we can provide tailored training and support to accommodate your requirements.
The Product Support request page is available online through Product Support Portal for your convenience. Please feel free to use this portal to request for technical support.
We always love to hear your feedback about CAM Assist! You can reach out to us directly or share your thoughts via our feedback form. The Product Feedback page is available online through Product Support Portal for your convenience. Your input helps us improve and provide the best experience possible!
