OpenCL is required for Mastercam to be able to hand off certain computation tasks to the graphics card to increase system performance. Other graphics cards can be used, but they must offer full OpenGL 3.2 and OpenCL 1.2 support. We recommend an NVIDIA Quadro® or AMD FirePro™ / Radeon Pro card with 4GB or more of memory. When purchasing a new computer for Mastercam, one of the most important component is the video card. For large toolpath generation and simulation, we recommend 32GB of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 8 GB of memory. When Mastercam uses all available RAM, it switches to using virtual memory space, which is stored on the hard drive and will dramatically slow the system down.

We typically see a 50% reduction in toolpath calculation time with the latest Intel i7 or Xeon processors. Toolpath calculation and Simulation will generally run faster with a multi-core processor. With each release, more and more aspects of Mastercam are becoming multi-core processor aware. The processor speed will impact how fast the software will calculate and complete tasks. Future versions of Mastercam will not install on Windows 7. Mastercam 2022 will install on Windows 7 systems but will not be supported. Mastercam 2021 was the last release to officially support Windows 7 as Microsoft ended extended support for the OS in January 2020. While Mastercam may run on other Windows editions (such as Home Edition) or virtual environments (such as Parallels for Mac), it has not been tested on these configurations and is therefore not supported.

We recommend using Windows 10 (version 20H2 or later) or later 64-bit Professional editions.

View Detailed Requirements And Suggestions OPERATING SYSTEMSĬNC Software continues to review the operating system (OS) requirements for Mastercam with a goal of providing the best possible user experience for our customers. The Mars Society Rover Challenge Series.Robotics Education & Competition Foundation (REC).

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