CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
9 March 2007
Events News
Delcam to Demonstrate Mouldmaking Progress in PowerMILL CAM System
Delcam will demonstrate the progress in its PowerMILL CAM system that has made it so popular with North American mouldmakers on Booth 1009 at the Moldmaking Expo to be held in Rosemont, Illinois, on 18th and 19th April.
PowerMILL first gained popularity some ten years ago as a stand-alone CAM system for shop floor programming. Its unique combination of an easy-to-use interface, fast calculation times, a wide range of machining strategies, and comprehensive gouge and collision checking made the software the system of choice for both machine operators and shop owners looking to increase productivity and improve quality.
Subsequent development by Delcam established PowerMILL a leader in high-speed machining. Additional functionality, including trochoidal machining, parametric offset machining and Delcam's patented Race Line machining, helped companies to achieve unprecedented machining speeds and greatly improved surface finish.
Now PowerMILL 5-Axis has been developed to allow fast, efficient programming of the most demanding machining applications. Options for both roughing and finishing include machining to or from a point, orientation through a line or curve, programming using a reference surface and swarf machining for either surface or wireframe geometry.
In addition, PowerMILL 5-Axis can generate a five-axis equivalent of any three-axis toolpath. This might be necessary when a three-axis approach is being used for most of a job but where some five-axis moves are needed to avoid an obstacle or to machine as closely as possible to a steep face. The software automatically tilts the cutter away from the obstacle by the specified tolerance and then returns the cutting angle to the value set for the overall toolpath once the problem area has been cleared.
With more than 50% of the company's software sales going on research and development, plus an in-house toolroom to ensure all new functionality is thoroughly tested at Delcam before being released to customers, PowerMILL looks set to enjoy even greater popularity in the future.
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